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Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935

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**Dorothy Scarborough**
Born:	January 27, 1878 Mount Carmel, Texas
Died:	November 7, 1935 New York City, New York
Occupation:	Writer, professor and literary critic
Literary movement:	American folklore
Influences:	[[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]]
Influenced:	Carson McCullers, [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]]

Dorothy Scarborough (born Emily Dorothy Scarborough, January 27, 1878 - died November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and a woman's life in the Midwest.

Early life

Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her mother's health, as her mother needed the drier climate. The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College.

Academics and Writing

Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and beginning in 1916 taught literature at Columbia University.

While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)". Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction ^[1] the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work."

Dorothy Scarborough came in contact with many writers in New York, including Edna Ferber and Vachel Lindsey. She taught creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond, and Carson McCullers, who took her first college writing class from Scarborough.^[1]

Her most critically acclaimed book, The Wind was later made into a film of the same name, starring Lilian Gish.

Original works

Fugitive Verses (1912), original verses
Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917); available in its entirety at Google Book Search
From a Southern Porch (1919), viewable in full at Google Book Search or viewable at the Portal to Texas History
Humorous Ghost Stories (1921) edited
In the Land of Cotton (1923)
On the Trail of Negro Folksongs (1925)
The Wind (1925), considered her most acclaimed work.
The Unfair Sex (serialized, 1925-26)
Impatient Griselda (1927)
Can't Get a Redbird (1929)
Stretch-Berry Smile (1932)
The Story of Cotton (1933) juvenile reader
Selected Short Stories of Today (1935)
A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains (1937, posthumous)

Works by Dorothy Scarborough at Project Gutenberg:

Famous Modern Ghost Stories 1921; edited by Dorothy Scarborough, with critical introduction

Biographical/critical essays

Biographical Essay on the Handbook of Texas Online Foreword to The Wind by Sylvia Ann Grider, Barker Texas History Center series, University of Texas Press, 1979.

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Foreword to The Wind by Sylvia Ann Grider, Barker Texas History Center series, University of Texas Press, 1979.

References

Dorothy Scarborough from the Handbook of Texas Online

This biographical information was gathered from the Dorothy_Scarborough page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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