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Family Reveals that Anne of Green Gables Author Committed Suicide

writerswrite.com » 2008 » September » 27th » Family Reveals that Anne of Green Gables Author Committed Suicide

Tagged: childrens books, childrens, anne green gables

The literary world got a shock this week: it turns out that Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of the children's classic Anne of Green Gables committed suicide. The news was revealed granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, daughter of Montgomery's youngest son Stuart Macdonald. Kate Butler said that her grandmother killed herself with an overdose of drugs at the age of 67. Kate Macdonald Butler … Continue Reading »

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