Mabel H. (Mabel Homer) Cummings

Mabel H. Cummings, also listed in library records as Mabel Homer Cummings, was an American writer born in 1872 and died in 1962. The clearest confirmed work linked to her is Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology, a retelling of Norse myths for younger readers that she wrote with Mary H. Foster.

Public-domain and library sources show that Asgard Stories has remained the work most closely connected with her name, including records from Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust. Beyond that, readily available biographical details are limited, so much of her life remains lightly documented in the public record.

That makes her an interesting figure for modern readers: an author known less through a long, famous biography than through a book that kept classic myth alive for new generations of children.