Today on the Google home page is a logo, Google Doodle, for the 141st birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud Montgomery was a well known Canadian fiction writer who wrote many children oriented books including Anne of Green Gables, Rilla of Ingleside and Emily of New Moon.
She was known as L. M. Montgomery and published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. She lived until the age of 67 and died in Toronto on April 24, 1942.
She was an incredibly well read individual who has touched many of American and Canadian children in their earlier reading days.
Rumors have it she died from depression and may have taken her own life. You can read more about her life on Wikipedia.
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