Lesley Beake alizaliwa huko Edinburgh, Scotland mwaka 1949 ni mwandishi wa riwaya za watoto wa Afrika Kusini. Lesley Beake alizaliwa na kusoma shule huko Edinburgh. Anaishi Afrika Kusini, ambako alifanya kazi kama mwalimu. Aliandika riwaya za watoto wake, ambazo zinashughulikia shida za watoto wa makabila fulani kusini mwa Afrika, zinavutia hadhira ya watu wazima. Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure: the journal of Peter David Hadden, 1986 The Strollers, 1987. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1986-1988, Winner of the Young African Award, 1987-1988 A Cageful of Butterflies, 1989. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1988-9. Winner of the M-Net Book Prize, 1991. Rainbow, 1989 Traveller, 1989 Merino, 1989 Serena's Story, 1990 Tjojo and the wild horses, 1990 Song of Be, 1991 Bau and the baobab tree, 1992 Mandi's wheels, 1992 The Race, 1992 Café Thunderball, 1993 One dark, dark night, 1993 Jakey, 1997 An Introduction to Africa, 2000 Home Now, 2006 Remembering Green, 2009 Linda Rode & G. Jakes Gerwel, eds., Crossing over: new writing for a new South Africa, 1995, p.57 Sandra L. Beckett, Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, 2009, p.128