Lynne Reid Banks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lynne Reid Banks

British writer

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1929

Place of Birth: London

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty-five books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film.
Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960, was an instant and lasting best seller.
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.