Cid Ricketts Sumner
ABOUT CID RICKETTS SUMNER
An American novelist and teacher, she is best known for Quality, as well as Tammy Out of Time. Both novels were made into films.
She graduated from Millsaps College and Columbia University and subsequently attended one year of medical school at Cornell University.
She was murdered by her grandson when she was eighty years old.
She married James B. Sumner , a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, in 1915.
Quality, one of Sumner's most famous novels, was adapted into a film directed by Elia Kazan .
