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Ruth Thomas was an English author of children's fiction. For her first novel, The Runaways, she won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
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. Books include The Runaways, The Class that Went Wild, The New Boy, The Secret, Guilty, The Paper Bag Baby and Hideaway.
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