author
Dorothy Scarborough
1878–1935
A Texas-born novelist, folklorist, and literary scholar, she is best remembered for vivid stories of Southern and Southwestern life and for helping preserve American folk-song traditions. Her work ranges from eerie ghostly tales to the stark, windswept novel The Wind.
2 Audiobooks
Humorous Ghost Stories
by Dorothy Scarborough
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
by Dorothy Scarborough
About the author
Born in Mount Carmel, Texas, in 1878, Dorothy Scarborough became an American writer, teacher, and folklorist whose work was deeply shaped by the people, landscapes, and oral traditions of the South and Southwest. Reliable reference sources describe her as a novelist and scholar who wrote about Texas life, women’s experiences, folklore, cotton farming, and ghost stories.
She is especially known for fiction that explored regional life with unusual intensity, along with studies and collections connected to folk culture and song. Sources from Texas literary and historical organizations also note her ties to higher education and her reputation as an important interpreter of Southwestern culture.
Today, she is often remembered both for her literary range and for taking everyday voices seriously—collecting and preserving songs and stories that might otherwise have been lost. That mix of storytelling and cultural memory gives her work a lasting appeal.