Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.The first novel was followed by a series of sequels. Montgomery went on to publish twenty novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada, places in the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.