Dokmai Sot
Mom Luang Buppha Nimmanhemin, writing under the pen name Dokmai Sot, was the most important Thai woman novelist in the period before World War II.
The second youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high-ranking official who had 32 children, she was educated at home and at a Catholic convent primary school in Bangkok. When she was five years old, her mother Mom Malai left Chao Phraya Thewet to marry a Western foreigner; Dō̜kmai Sot remained with her father. Her earlier novels were romances but her later work, set in the world of the Thai elite, deals with moral issues in a changing world, based on Buddhist values. In her view, a person's quality was not measured by their social status but by their morality as reflected in their behaviour. She also wrote a number of short stories which are less known than her novels.
In 1954, she married the Thai politician Sukich Nimmanhemin.
Her sister Boonlua Kunchon Thepyasuwan, also a novelist, wrote under the name Boonlua.