• Source: Evelyn Scott (writer)

      • Evelyn Scott (born Elsie Dunn, January 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, she "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion".


      Personal life


      Dunn was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, and spent her younger years in New Orleans, Louisiana. She wrote about her childhood in her autobiographical Background in Tennessee.
      Dunn's first husband was Frederick Creighton Wellman. He was a married man when they met and dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Tulane. Both took on pseudonyms when they ran away to Brazil together in 1913. He became Cyril Kay-Scott and she took Scott as her surname. The two had a son, Creighton, before divorcing in 1928. She also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton.
      Scott married the English writer John Metcalfe in 1930.


      Literary career


      Scott sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Ernest Souza or under her birth name, Elsie Dunn.


      Bibliography




      = Fiction

      =
      The Narrow House. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1921
      Narcissus. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922 (U.K. edition: Bewilderment. London: Duckworth, 1922)
      The Golden Door. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925
      Ideals: a Book of Farce and Comedy. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927
      Migrations: an Arabesque in Histories. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927
      The Wave. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929
      Blue Rum (written under the pseudonym "Ernest Souza"). New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930
      A Calendar of Sin: American Melodramas. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931
      Eva Gay. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933
      Breathe Upon These Slain. New York: Scribners, 1934
      Bread and a Sword. New York: Scribners, 1937
      The Shadow of the Hawk. New York: Scribners, 1941


      = Poetry

      =
      Precipitations. New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920
      The Winter Alone. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930
      The Collected Poems of Evelyn Scott (ed. Caroline C. Maun). Orono: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 2005


      = Autobiography

      =
      Escapade. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923
      Background in Tennessee. New York: R. M. McBride, 1937


      = Children's

      =
      In the Endless Sands: a Christmas Book for Boys and Girls (with C. Kay-Scott). New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1925
      Witch Perkins: a Story of the Kentucky Hills. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1929
      Billy the Maverick. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1934


      Further reading


      Callard, D. A. Pretty Good for a Woman: The Enigmas of Evelyn Scott. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985
      White, Mary Wheeling. Fighting the Current: The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998
      Scura, Dorothy McInnis and Jones, Paul C., eds. Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001
      Tyrer, Pat. Evelyn Scott's Contribution to American Literary Modernism, 1920-1940: A Study of Her Trilogy: The New Woman in the Narrow House, Narcissus, and The Golden Door. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013


      References




      External links


      Works by Evelyn Scott at Project Gutenberg
      Works by or about Evelyn Scott at the Internet Archive

      Evelyn Scott Collection at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
      Evelyn Scott Collection at the Harry Ransom Center

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