Ruth Thomas (children's writer)

This article is about the children's writer. For the novelist and short story writer, see Ruth Thomas (novelist).

Ruth Thomas (4 January 1927 – 25 August 2011) was an English author of children's fiction. For her first novel, The Runaways, she won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, an annual book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

Ruth Thomas
Born	4 January 1927 Wellington, Somerset, England
Died	25 August 2011 age: 84
Occupation	Author of children's fiction
Nationality	English
Notable works	The Runaways
Notable awards	Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1988)

Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, England, to two primary school teachers.

Her books draw on her own experiences as a primary school teacher, at first in East London; during the 1980s in Kensal Green, north west London.

Publications

• The Runaways (1987)
• The Class That Went Wild (1989)
• The Secret (1991)
• The New Boy (1992)
• Guilty! (1993)
• Hideaway (1994)
• The Paper Bag Baby (2002)

External links

• Ruth Thomas At RandomHouse