Prairie Dog

A community-builder who wrote warmth and belonging into every page.

L. M. Montgomery was a prolific writer whose work, especially the Anne of Green Gables series, was deeply rooted in community, belonging, and the bonds of friendship and family — classic prairie-dog territory. She was a keen social observer who channeled her own loneliness and longing for connection into richly peopled fictional worlds full of wit, warmth, and gossip. Despite a private life marked by depression and difficult relationships, her public literary persona was one of cozy sociability, storytelling, and an almost journalistic eye for small-town life on Prince Edward Island.