Monette Cummings

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Monette A. Cummings was an American writer whose career covered several kinds of popular fiction. Reliable sources describe her as writing pulp fiction in multiple genres, including fantasy, planetary romance, and later Regency romance.

Her genre work began in the 1950s, with science-fiction and fantasy stories appearing in magazines such as Planet Stories. A collection of her shorter fantasy work, Exile and Other Tales of Fantasy, was published in 1968, showing the breadth of her early imaginative fiction.

She later became especially associated with historical romance. Her novel The Beauty’s Daughter received a Golden Medallion from the Romance Writers of America, and her body of work reflects a writer comfortable reinventing herself across changing popular tastes. She died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1999.