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Cid Ricketts Sumner (September 27, 1890 – October 15, 1970) was a novelist from the United States whose works inspired several Hollywood films. She also taught English at a Jackson, Mississippi , high school and French at Millsaps College .
Cid Ricketts Sumner was born on September 27, 1890 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer, known for Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Pinky (1949) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967). He was previously married to James B. Sumner. He died on October 15, 1970 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
Cid Ricketts Sumner was born on September 27, 1890, in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She wrote under the name Cid Ricketts, but her real name was Bertha Ricketts (Delta Democrat Times 1). Her parents were Bertha Burnley and Robert Scott Ricketts, a professor at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Cid Ricketts Sumner became widely known in the mid-twentieth century as a novelist whose works were the basis for several popular films. Born Bertha Louise Ricketts in Brookhaven, Mississippi, on 27 September 1890, she quickly acquired the nickname Cid from her parents, Robert Scott Ricketts and Bertha Burnley Ricketts. Homeschooled by her mother and grandmother […]
Cid Ricketts Sumner has 29 books on Goodreads with 347 ratings. Cid Ricketts Sumner’s most popular book is Tammy Out of Time.
Cid Ricketts Sumner was born on 27 September 1890 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer, known for Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Pinky (1949) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967). He was married to James B. Sumner. He died on 15 October 1970 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
As an author, Cid Ricketts Sumner is best remembered for three of her novels that were each adapted into successful movies—Quality, Tammy Tell Me True, and Tammy Out of Time. The novel Quality (1946) was the basis for the film Pinky (1949), a story about a light-skinned black woman who passes for white.
