Cid Ricketts Sumner (September 27, 1890 – October 15, 1970) was a novelist from the United States whose works inspired several Hollywood films.
The story caused so many disputes that some southern theaters refused to play it because of its progressive nature a decade before the Civil Rights Movement.
Modak-Truran says that "The first thing that comes to mind when I think of movies adapted from novels by Cid Ricketts Sumner is a romantic comedy featuring a cuddly Mississippi-bred cutie-pie who is head over heels in love with the perfect bachelor".
[2] Towards the end of her life, she wrote more non-fiction books that were centered around her experiences while traveling different parts of the world.
[2] Sumner published eight other novels: But the Morning Will Come (1949), Sudden Glory (1951), The Hornbeam Tree (1953), Traveler in the Wilderness (1957), View from the Hill (1957), Christmas Gift (1959), Withdraw Thy Foot (1964), and Saddle Your Dreams (1964)—as well as a number of short stories.
After her writing career, she moved up North, living the rest of her life mostly in New York or Massachusetts.
Sumner died violently, being bludgeoned to death at the age of 80 in Duxbury, Massachusetts by her grandson, John R. Cutler, who was charged with her murder.