Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks
Born(1929-07-31)31 July 1929
Barnes, Surrey, England
Died4 April 2024(2024-04-04) (aged 94)
Surrey, England
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
Notable works
Spouse
Chaim Stephenson
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(m. 1965; died 2016)​
Children3
Lynne Reid Banks's voice
from the BBC programme Bookclub, 6 June 2010.[1]
Website
lynnereidbanks.com

Lynne Reid Banks (31 July 1929 – 4 April 2024) was a British author of books for children and adults, including The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 15 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film.[2] Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960,[3] was an instant and lasting best seller.[4] It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely. Banks also wrote a biography of the Brontë family, entitled Dark Quartet, and a sequel about Charlotte Brontë, Path to the Silent Country.

  1. ^ "Lynne Reid Banks". Bookclub. 6 June 2010. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014. James Naughtie and readers talk to the celebrated author Lynne Reid Banks about her first novel, The L-Shaped Room.
  2. ^ "Home". lynnereidbanks.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2006.
  3. ^ Biography Archived 18 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Watts, Janet (5 April 2024). "Lynne Reid Banks obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.