Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction.

His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times.

In it he concludes that human civilization, to survive, would need to become environmentally sustainable, with specific reference to global warming and climate change.

His 1992 non-fiction book Stolen Continents was awarded the 1993 Gordon Montador Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada[4] and his 1997 novel A Scientific Romance, about a museum curator who travels into the future and investigates the fate of the human race, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction for first-time novelists.

Wright is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, and has written and presented documentaries for radio and television on both sides of the Atlantic.