Lynne Reid Banks Lynne Reid Banks 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",
Christian Reid Christian Reid Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (pen name, Christian Reid; July 5, 1846 – March 24, 1920) was an American author who wrote over 50 novels, most notably "The Land of the Sky". In 1870, Tiernan published her first novel, "Valerie Aylmer". In the following year, she published in "Appletons' Journal" a novel entitled "Morton House", a story of Southern life. Tiernan considered it to be her best work. In 1887, she married James M. Tiernan, of Maryland, and accompanied him to Mexico where he had mining interests. There, she collected material for her novel, "The Land of the Sun",