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",
Iain Reid my Road Trip with Grandma" in 2013. His debut novel, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", was published in 2016. It is being adapted info a film for Netflix by Charlie Kaufman. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. Iain Reid Iain Reid (b. ca. 1980) is a Canadian writer, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015. Reid established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers following his college graduation. He drew the attention of the "National Post", garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015 he began appearing in US magazine "The New Yorker".