L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in 1874 in New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her mother died before she was two, and her father moved west, so she was raised by her strict grandparents in Cavendish, on the island's north shore. She loved books and nature and began writing as a child. She trained as a teacher at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and taught in island schools. After her grandfather died she returned to Cavendish to look after her grandmother. There she wrote Anne of Green Gables (1908), about Anne Shirley, a talkative, red-haired orphan sent by mistake to an elderly brother and sister who had wanted a boy. It was an immediate success, and Montgomery wrote many sequels and other novels, including the Emily books. In 1911 she married the Presbyterian minister Ewen Macdonald and moved to Ontario, where they raised two sons. She kept detailed journals all her life, later published. She died in Toronto in 1942.

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Faith: A Presbyterian, married to a Presbyterian minister. Source: Wikipedia