In 1971, after 9 years in Israel, Lynne and her husband Chaim Stephenson, a sculptor, and their children moved to London where she continued to write. While in Israel Lynne Reid Banks was inspired to write two books that would later be published: Letters to My Israeli Sons: The Story of Jewish Survival (1979), and Torn Country: An Oral History of the Israeli War of Independence (1982). The L-Shaped Room was later adapted to film and met with critical acclaim.
It was released in 1960 and met with outrage among some conservative audiences due to its subject matter, which included an unmarried, pregnant woman kicked out of her home by her father. Lynne Reid Banks' first published novel was The L-Shaped Room. Much of her writing has been based on experiences and influences throughout her life. She moved to Israel in 1962 where she worked as a teacher. She became one of the first women in Britain to work as a television journalist. After the war she returned to London and completed her education. Her mother took her to Canada during World War II to escape the Nazis and she spent five years in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She was born on July 31 st, 1929 in London, England, to James and Muriel Reid. Lynne Reid Banks is a British writer best known for her bestselling novel The Indian in the Cupboard.
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