Product Description

Lucy Maud Montgomery believed that one day she would be taken seriously as a writer. Despite the many obstacles she faced throughout her life, Montgomery not only earned a good living as a writer, but also became famous for it. Anne of Green Gables is one of the most popular books ever written and has been translated into over 20 languages, garnering Montgomery worldwide recognition and appeal. Weaving the real events of her life into the fabric of her fiction using photographs, excerpts from newspapers and actual journal pages, this biography explores Montgomery's struggle and determination to realize her dreams. Includes a concise time line and a listing of pertinent Web sites.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1411745 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables is paid tribute in Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Writer's Life by Elizabeth MacLeod, in the same format as her previous Alexander Graham Bell. In addition to learning about the author's early life growing up on Prince Edward Island, fans of Anne can see the house that served as model for Green Gables, and will see that the author had much in common with her fictitious heroine. The right-hand page of each spread includes quotes and photos of the author and people, places and things that were important to her. A timeline and related Web sites close this informative paper-over-board volume.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-This highly pictorial introduction to the famous Canadian author assumes that readers are familiar with Montgomery's works, but is formatted for a younger audience. Thirteen double-page chapters tell her story. Historical facts about the times are interspersed with information about the writer and mention is made of the things that happened to her that are paralleled in her characters' lives. Captioned illustrations, photographs, and quotations fill each right-hand page and spot art and reproductions add additional snippets of information. Students who are looking for report information on someone famous will be satisfied with this slim biography. However, readers who know and love Montgomery's books will want more than is available in this cursory overview. Introduce them to Catherine M. Andronik's Kindred Spirit: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Creator of Anne of Green Gables (Atheneum, 1993). Montgomery's The Alpine Path (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997) focuses on her childhood and early writing years.-Kathleen Simonetta, Indian Trails Public Library District, Wheeling, IL

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 3-5. This brief, illustrated biography is similar in format to MacLeod's Alexander Graham Bell (1999). It introduces one of Canada's most famous writers. Period photos in black-and-white as well as color pictures of sites, artifacts, and books illustrate the text. Though somewhat busy visually, this presentation offers a good biographical overview, studded with vivid details. MacLeod gives a clear sense of Montgomery's life and shows how she wove certain parts of her own history into her fiction. Anne of Green Gables fans will find this an accessible and entertaining choice. Carolyn Phelan
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Customer Reviews

Anne Fans, Rejoice!
This is the perfect book for any true fan of Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon or Pat of Silverbush. It is a 32 page book in the picture book format that is loaded with photos, articles, news clippings, history and little known facts about the life of the Canadian author, L.M. Montgomery, who created all of these wonderful characters and many more in her books and stories about life in Prince Edward Island. Unlike several of the longer biographies that have been written about Montgomery, this one can be read in an afternoon and combines plenty of visual fare along with the written details of this amazing woman's life. This is a book that adults who have loved Anne will find satisfyingly interesting as well as one that is suitably concise and brief. Older children will enjoy the breezy conversational style in which it is written. Photographs abound, including ones of Montgomery's various homes, her children and her husband, as well as youthful friends and "beaus" and even her favorite cat, Lucky. It traces her life from her earliest days, through growing up, her time as a teacher, a newspaper woman, a professional writer, as the author of Anne of Green Gables and the myriad other titles that followed, and as a wife and mother. Excerpts from her journals provide special insight into her heart and mind and I found these to be the most thrilling parts of all. A chronology of all her books is included as well as several websites that concern L.M. Montgomery and her books. Wonderful little tidbits are numerous and include the personal details about writing Anne of Green Gables, the starts and stops, the interruptions, the rejection slips and tears. We learn that Montgomery's secondhand typewriter didn't type capital letters very well and didn't type "w" at all! I really enjoyed this book and I believe any fan of this gifted author's work will delight in it, too. It is especially encouraging and cheering to young writers.

absolutley absorbing
After watching Road to Avonlea and Anne of Green Gables, we wanted to read about the author and found this book to be very interesting. It is a great introduction, but at the same time covers all the aspects of her life, with many photos, copies of her signatures and writing, little antidotes, and snippets of very interesting information. One can draw from these some of the people that are included in her writing. There is so much on each page and even though it is not a large book, it gives so much information of all kinds, that it is truly a lovely book, one that a Avonlea fan would not want to be without. I am so glad that I came across this little but powerful gem!!