[5] Bannister was an avid reader at a young age and began writing her own stories by the time she was six.
[6] Bannister met her husband, Allan Louis Berg in Frankfurt and they were married in 1946, moving to California.
[4] By 1983, her novels had sold millions of copies and she was awarded the a "Silver Loving Cup" by Barbara Cartland for her work.
[4] Publishers Weekly praised her works and called The Riddle of Alabaster Royal (1997), a "Regency that rises farther above the formula than her fine novels usually do.
"[10] "Veryan's books are distinguished by well-developed central characters," according to Twentieth-century romance and historical writers,[11] a book which also discusses the suffering undergone by some of her heroes before they can be considered free of past wrongdoing: in, for example, The Lord and the Gypsy and Love Alters Not.