Product Description

L. M. Montgomery, the creator of Anne of Green Gables and author of more than 20 books, is a household name the world over. Anne of Green Gables has been translated into 40 different languages and immortalized on film. The spirited story of orphaned Anne was inspired by the natural beauty of Prince Edward Island.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2028716 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From the Back Cover
Lucy Maud Montgomery- The Incredible Life of the Creator of Anne of Green Gables ""I set my teeth and said, 'I will succeed.' I believed in myself and struggled on alone ... I never told my ambitions and efforts and failures to any one. Down, deep down, under all discouragement and rebuff, I knew I would arrive someday."" - L. M. Montgomery This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: biography the Maritimes L. M. Montgomery, the creator of Anne of Green Gables and author of more than 20 books, is a household name the world over. Anne of Green Gables has been translated into 40 different languages and immortalized on film. The spirited story of orphaned Anne was inspired by the natural beauty of Prince Edward Island.

About the Author
Stan Sauerwein lives and writes in Westbank, British Columbia. A freelance writer for two decades, Stan has written articles that have appeared in a variety of Canadian and U.S. magazines and newspapers. Specializing in business subjects, he has written for both corporations and governments.

He is the author of six other books - Rattenbury: The Life and Tragic End of B.C.'s Greatest Architect, Ma Murray: The Story of Canada's Crusty Queen of Publishing, Klondike Joe Boyle: Heroic Adventures from Gold Fields to Battlefields, Moe Norman: The Canadian Golfing Legend with the Perfect Swing, Pierre Elliott Trudeau: The Fascinating Life of Canada's Most Flamboyant Prime Minister, and Fintry: Lives, Loves and Dreams.

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Maud sorted through her papers and dejectedly separated theletters of rejection. It hardly seemed fair that the last one hadbeen so blunt, but she shrugged it off. "After all," she told herself, "you are only starting to find your own voice as a writer."True to the schedule she was trying to maintain everyday, Maud had gotten up that morning before dawn to stealsome time for her passion - writing. Her grandmother wasstill asleep, the stove was stoked for breakfast, and any otherhousehold chores could wait a few hours.Maud opened her small black notebook and began toleaf through it page by page, looking for an idea. Her fastscrawl, developing into a personal kind of shorthand, coveredthe sheets in careful scratches. They were glimpses of hermoods, random thoughts, and dreamy passages with snippetsof prose.As she scanned, however, the last rejection letter for hersecretly written novel pestered her. She'd put so much time into it. Surely some of it was salvageable. Perhaps a shortened version might be accepted for a Sunday school paper. I can earn a few dollars for that, and heaven knows I need the money, she thought.Petting her cat, Maud tried to remember what she haddone with the manuscript. She searched through the stacks onher writing desk and then suddenly remembered. The hatbox!Maud pulled the box from the cupboard and scooped outher handwritten pages. With a satisfied murmur, she madeherself comfortable at her desk and began to read. She hadn'tgot through half the manuscript when she decided her character deserved one more chance."It's really not half bad," Maud whispered to herself. Shestuffed the pages into an envelope and gave it a gentle pat."Good luck, Anne with an 'e.'"