Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Prince Edward Island is known for being the location for novels written by Lucy Maud Montgomery including Anne of Green Gables .
Simplified: Lucy Maud Montgomery , who was born in Clifton ( now New London ) in 1874 , wrote some 20 novels and numerous collections and anthologies . Her first Anne book Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908 .