Mitali Banerjee Ruths (born 1982) is an American-Canadian children's author and pediatrician.
Ruths was born in New York, and grew up in Texas; her parents immigrated to the U.S. from West Bengal, India. There, her father worked for NASA as an engineer, and she attended Space Center Intermediate. [1] After attending medical school, she had her pediatric internship in Houston. [2]
Ruths began writing her Party Diaries series following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
Ruths moved to Montreal, Canada in 2010. [1] As of 2023, she, her husband, and their three children live in Montreal, where she works as a pediatrician. [2]