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An engaging, highly moving young adult biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily series, and many more treasured stories. This year, 2002, marks the 60th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's death.
Award-winning young adult author Janet Lunn vividly brings to life the story of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Montgomery was not yet two years old when her mother died. The journey from that day to the day Montgomery signed "Lucy Maud Montgomery" at the end of her first published story was long and often painful. In this her life was much like that of her famous character Anne of Green Gables. Both had to overcome loneliness and challenges before finally knowing success. And, as Anne has been for nearly a century, Montgomery is an inspiration to girls and young women around the world.
Today, Lucy Maud Montgomery's books have been translated into nearly every language, and transformed into dozens of plays, musicals, films, and made-for-television series. In 1975 a Canadian Anne of Green Gables postage stamp was issued, and recently, an Anne theme park was opened in Tokyo. At the end of 1999, when lists of the last century's favourite writers were being compiled, the name Lucy Maud Montgomery led all others.