Lynne Reid Banks

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Lynne Reid Banks (born July 31, 1929 in London ) is a British writer , especially of books for children and young people, who is internationally best known for her children's book The Indian in the Kitchen Cupboard .

Life

Lynn Reid Banks was born in London, the only child of James and Muriel Reid Banks. The father was a Scottish doctor, the mother an Irish actress. Like many other children in the metropolis , she was evacuated due to the bombing . She lived in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada during the Second World War , only to return to her homeland after the war. There she attended St. Teresa's School in Surrey . Before becoming a writer, she worked as an actress and also worked for ITN as one of the first women to be a television journalist in the UK

In 1960 she published her first adult novel, The L-Shaped Room , which sold very well and continues to attract audiences even today. Just two years later it was filmed under the title Das indiskrete Zimmer and had two sequels in book form: The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely .

In 1962 , Banks emigrated to Israel , where she lived for the next eight years on Kibbutz Yas'ur. In 1965 she married Chaim Stephenson, a sculptor with whom she has three sons. One of them, Omir Stephenson, worked with his mother on two picture books in 2010. Even though the family moved to England in 1971, the time in Israel influenced their work. For example, she had some novels set entirely or partially in a kibbutz ( One More River , Broken Bridge , An End to Running and Children at the Gate ).

Lynne Reid Banks now lives with her husband in Sherperton near London.

Banks wrote a total of around 40 books, with The Indian in the Kitchen Cupboard selling as a children's novel with 10 million copies and also being made into a film. The writer also wrote a biography of the Brontë siblings entitled Dark Quartet , as well as a sequel on Charlotte Brontë called Path to the Silent Country .

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Children's and youth novels
  • The Indian in the Cupboard . (1980)
  • The Return of the Indian (1985)
  • The Secret of the Indian (1989)
  • The Mystery of the Cupboard (1992)
  • The Key to the Indian (1998)
  • Tiger tiger
  • The Adventures of King Midas
  • Alice-By-Accident
  • Angela and Diabola
  • The dungeon
  • Maura's fishing rod
  • One More River (1973; revised new edition 1992)
  • Broken Bridge
  • The Fairy Rebel
  • The Farthest-Away Mountain (1976)
  • Harry the Poisonous Centipede
  • Harry the Poisonous Centipede Goes to Sea
  • Harry the Poisonous Centipede's Big Adventure
  • I, Houdini: The Autobiography of a Self-Educated Hamster (1988)
  • Stealing Stacey
  • Melusine (1988)
  • Bad Cat Good Cat (2011)
Novels
  • The L-Shaped Room (1960)
  • An end to running
  • Children at the Gate
  • The Backward Shadow , sequel to The L-Shaped Room .
  • Two is Lonely , Part Three of the L-Shaped Room - Trilogy
  • Casualties
  • Defy the Wilderness
  • Dark Quartet
  • Path to the Silent Country
  • Fair exchange
Non-fictional works
  • Letters to My Israeli Sons (1973)
  • Torn Country (1982)
picture books
  • The Spice Rack (2010)
  • Polly and Jake (2010)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lynnereidbanks.com/biog.html
  2. ↑ Lynne Reid Banks, TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour , The Guardian , August 14, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ www.yourlibrary.ws
personal data
SURNAME Banks, Lynne Reid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK