Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.

30 November 1874

Born on the same birth date (30 November 1874): Winston Churchill

Born on the same birth day (30 November): Andrea Doria • David Sancious • Hikari Mitsushima • Joël Champetier • Jushin Liger • Luther Ingram • Mingyi Nyo • Richard Elias Anderson

Born in the same month (November 1874): Albert Francis Blakeslee • Alexander Kolchak • August Krogh • Chaim Weizmann • Charles A. Beard • Clarence Day • Dimitrios Golemis • Francis Dodd (artist) • Idabelle Smith Firestone • Joe Gans • Winston Churchill