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Katherine Rundell born 10 July is an English author and academic. In , Rundell was named author of the year at the British Book Awards. Rundell was born in Kent , England on 10 July and spent ten years in Harare , Zimbabwe , where her father was a diplomat. When she was 14 years old, her family moved to Brussels ; Rundell later told Newsweek ' s Tim de Lisle that it was a culture shock, saying:.

My friends and I were still climbing trees and having swimming competitions". De Lisle notes, "She gives Belgium some credit for broadening her mind […] But she resented it too, to the point where all her books, and her play, contain a joke at Belgium's expense". She completed her undergraduate studies at St Catherine's College, Oxford — During this period she developed an interest in rooftop climbing, inspired by a book, The Night Climbers of Cambridge , about the adventures of undergraduate students at that university.

She told The Bookseller ' s Anna James that the application process had involved a three-hour written examination on the single word "novelty", and added: "I wrote about Derridean deconstructionist theory and Christmas crackers [ Rundell's first book, published in , was The Girl Savage ; it told the story of Wilhelmina Silver, a girl from Zimbabwe, who is sent to an English boarding-school following the death of her father.

A slightly revised version was released in the United States in , under the title Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms , where it won the Boston Globe—Horn Book Award for fiction. Her second book, Rooftoppers , followed the adventures of Sophie, apparently orphaned in a shipwreck on her first birthday. Sophie later attempts to find her mother, who she is convinced survived the disaster, whilst also taking to the rooftops of Paris in order to thwart officials trying to send her to a British orphanage.

Rundell's third novel, The Wolf Wilder , tells the story of Feodora, who prepares wolf cubs — kept as status-symbol pets by wealthy Russians — for release into the wild when they become too large and unmanageable for their owners. Rundell's fourth novel, The Explorer, tells the survival story of a group of children whose plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, and a secret they uncover.