The L-Shaped Room Academy Award for Best Actress. A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset (Caron), arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into an L-shaped room. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player. Jane is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant and consider her options. The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion
Tyra Banks book entitled "Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out". She announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, titled "Modelland", loosely based on her own modelling experience. It was published in September 2011, intended to be the first of a planned three-part series; "Modelland" topped "The New York Times" Best Seller list in October 2011. In 2018, Banks and her mother, Carolyn London, co-authored a book entitled "Perfect is Boring". In August 2016, Banks accepted a position as a personal branding guest lecturer at Stanford University. Banks dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s, and in January 2016