L. A. Banks (1959-2011) was a pseudonym of Leslie Esdaile Banks.
L. A. Banks was the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. She had a bachelor's degree from the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a master's in fine arts
from Temple University. Banks considered herself a shape-shifter. She wrote romance, women's fiction, crime and suspense, and of
course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lived with her daughter in an
undisclosed lair somewhere in Philadelphia.
