About the Author
Adelaide
Cummings,
age 95, is a renowned
and award winning
poet who lives
in West Falmouth,
Massachusetts.
She recently won
a national Barnes
& Noble prize
for her poetry.
In her more than
9 decades, she
has lived a varied
and accomplished
life as a magazine
writer, author,
poet, editor,
world traveler,
sailor, and winner
of 4 Olympic gold
medals in tennis.
Adelaide
Cummings, a Radcliff
graduate, worked
for Life Magazine
when it started
(in the mid 1930’s).
Later, she was
Editor in Chief
of Child Life
Magazine (breaking
the mold when
it was still unusual
to be a career
women). She is
an author of 2
juvenile age-group
books and 1 adult
biography (with
Putnam and Houghton-Mifflin)
and was a regular
columnist at the
National Observer
writing a weekly
political satire
column called
“Zoos Who.”
Adelaide Cummings
has also written
many travel articles
during her extensive
world travels
(which she still
does today), some
of which she did
with her husband
on their boat.
She also won 4
Senior Olympic
gold medals in
Women’s
Singles, Women’s
Doubles, Mixed
Doubles and 1
U.S. T.A. National
title.
With
her varied, interesting
and busy life,
Adelaide Cummings
did not take up
poetry full time
until she was
in her eighties.
She has written
and self published
6 books in the
last 6 years.
She credits her
love of and prodigious
production of
poetry as a key
to staying so
sharp and active.
Her “youthful
spirit”
is epitomized
by the following
story: Already
fluent in French,
she took up Italian
at age 89. Her
Italian teacher
asked her why
she was taking
up a new language
at such a late
age. She replied,
“because,
I want to find
an Italian lover!”
Her latest poetry
book, Curtain
Call, will
soon be available
on Amazon.com.
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