Leslie Banks - biography

“That has always been it for me: family first.”

“It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.”

“In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author...  I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.”

“I look at life, the experiences I’ve had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.”

“I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.”

“The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.”

Leslie Banks has appeared in the following films:
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Tunnel (1935)
Farewell Again (1937)
Fire Over England (1937)
Wings of the Morning (1937)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Sons of the Sea (1939)
21 Days (1940)
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940)
Dead Man’s Shoes (1940)
The Big Blockade (1940)
Cottage to Let (1941)
Ships with Wings (1942)
Went the Day Well? (1942)
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift (1944)
The Small Back Room (1949)
Madeleine (1950)
Your Witness (1950)