Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 – 1 October 2011[1]) was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics.

[2] According to Langford's memoir, Don't Take Your Love to Town,[3] her parents married in September 1934, eight months after her birth, and she was originally named Ruby Maude Anderson.

Born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on New South Wales's northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino.

[5] Her best-known book was the autobiographical Don't Take Your Love to Town, published in 1988, which won the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Award for Literature.

Langford had been suffering kidney problems and high blood pressure before her death at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, aged 77, on 1 October 2011.