Monette Cummings

Monette A. Cummings, also known as Mona A. Cummings, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 30, 1914, and died in Lawrence, Kansas, on December 22, 1999. She wrote across several genres, including pulp fiction, Regency romance, planetary romance, and fantasy.

Before turning fully to freelance writing, Cummings worked as an accounts clerk, magazine editor, customer service representative, and bookkeeper. Her science-fiction work began appearing in the 1950s, including the Planet Stories tale “The Brides of Ool,” while her fantasy collection Exile and Other Tales of Fantasy was published in 1968. She later wrote more than a dozen romance novels, including Guardian Devil, The Scandalous Widow, and The Beauty’s Daughter, which won the 1986 RITA Award for Regency Historical Romance.