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Sumner was born Bertha Louise Ricketts in Brookhaven , Mississippi . She was the daughter of Bertha Burnley and Robert Scott Ricketts. Her father was a professor at Millsaps College , and her mother and grandmother provided a homeschooled education for her. She received a BS from Millsaps College in 1909 and an MA from Columbia University in 1910. She continued postgraduate work at Columbia from 1910 to 1914, then enrolled in medical school at Cornell. She only attended one year of medical school before marrying one of her professors, Nobel Prize winner James B. Sumner , on July 10 , 1915 . They had four children (although the Nobel website for James B. Sumner indicated that they had six children, one of whom died young). They were divorced in 1930. Several of Ms. Sumner's books were filmed. The most well-known were ''Quality'', which became the movie '' Pinky ''; ''Tammy Out of Time'' became the movie ''Tammy and the Bachelor''; and ''Tammy Tell Me True''. ''Quality'' was quite ahead of its time in terms of addressing Miscegenation (interracial marriage). It depicts a young, fair-skinned black woman who attends nursing school in the north and passes for white. Ms. Sumner died violently, being bludgeoned to death at the age of 80 in Duxbury , Massachusetts . Her grandson, John R. Cutler , was charged with her murder. |
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