Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks (1929–2024) was a British author renowned for children's books like *The Indian in the Cupboard*, which sold over 15 million copies and was adapted into a film, and adult novels including the bestseller *The L-Shaped Room* (1960), which explored single parenthood and became a movie. Born in London to an Irish actress and Scottish doctor, she worked as a journalist and one of Britain's first female TV news reporters at ITN before emigrating to Israel in 1962, living on a kibbutz, raising three sons, and returning to England in 1971 to write full-time.[1][2][3][4]