4 April 2024(2024-04-04) (aged 94) Surrey, England
Occupation
Author
Nationality
British
Notable works
The Indian in the Cupboard
The L-Shaped Room
Spouse
Chaim Stephenson
(m. 1965; died 2016)
Children
3
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.
^"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.
^"Home". lynnereidbanks.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2006.
^Biography Archived 18 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^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.
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