# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynne-reid-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:13:15.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynne-reid-banks"
name: "Lynne Reid Banks"
slug: "lynne-reid-banks"
description: "Lynne Reid Banks 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. 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."
tagline: "British writer (1929–2024)"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-07-31"
deathDate: "2024-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7577807848443844
  historical:           16.25724
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "nm0052209"
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    url:       "http://lynnereidbanks.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump