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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 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 […]
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.
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Events at Midridge(1970)Tammy in Rome (1965)Saddle Your Dreams (1964)Withdraw Thy Foot (1964)by Shinta Tikson (SHS) 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. Sumner was educated by her m...
A Review of Tammy Tell Me True
by Shinta Tikson (SHS) Tammy Tell Me True, a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner, takes place in the pre-Civil War South, and it is about Tammy, a seventeen-year-old girl who lives at Brenton Hall with her fiancé Peter after her grandparents could not take care of her anymore. Before her grandfather was taken to jail and her grandmother died, Tammy lived with them in a shanty boat, the Ellen B., on the Mississippi River. Lloyd states, “These poor people, who on the surface may appear simple and igno...
Chambers, Elsie May. “Mississippi Author Fatally Bludgeoned.” Clarion-Ledger. 16 Oct. 1970: 1A & 12A.“Hold Grandson in Slaying of State Novelist: Is Held Without Bail; Memorial Service Planned.” Jackson Daily News. 16 Oct. 1970: 1A & 14A.Lloyd, James B., ed. Lives of Mississippi Authors. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.“Mississippi-born ‘Tammy’ Author Slain.” Delta Democrat Times. 16 Oct. 1970: 1.Cid Ricketts Sumner has 29 books on Goodreads with 363 ratings. Cid Ricketts Sumner’s most popular book is Tammy Out of Time.
Cid Ricketts Sumner was born on September 27, 1890 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer, known for Pinky (1949), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967). He was married to James B. Sumner. He died on October 15, 1970 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
Feb 7, 2017 · Cid Ricketts Sumner. Pickle Partners Publishing, Feb 7, 2017 - History - 236 pages. Originally published in 1949, this book tells the story of a Southern white girl and her reaction when...
