Background
Sumner, Bertha Cid Ricketts was born on September 27, 1890 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Robert Scott and Bertha (Burnley) Ricketts.
Sumner, Bertha Cid Ricketts was born on September 27, 1890 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Robert Scott and Bertha (Burnley) Ricketts.
Bachelor of Science, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1909. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1910. Graduate work Cornell Medical School, 1914-1915.
Author novels: Ann Singleton, 1938. Quality, 1946 (movie Pinky, 1949). Tammy Out of Time, 1948.
But The Morning Will Come, 1949.
Sudden Glory, 1951; short stories in Woman’s Home Companion. Address: Duxbury Master of Arts.
Married James Batcheller Sumner, July 20, 1915 (divorced 1930). Children: Roberta Rand (Mistress John Henry Cutler), Prudence Avery (Mistress Edward Gamard), James Cosby, Frederick Burnley.