Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, (born Nov. 30, 1874, Clifton, P.E.I., Can.—died April 24, 1942, Toronto), Canadian regional romantic novelist, best known for Anne of Green Gables (1908), a sentimentalized but often charming story of a spirited, unconventional orphan girl who finds a home with an elderly couple.