Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough (1878–1935) was an American novelist, folklorist and teacher. Raised in Texas, she taught at Baylor University before moving to Columbia University in New York. Her study The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917) led to her ghost-story anthologies, among them Humorous Ghost Stories. On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (1925) preserved songs she collected in the South. Her best-known novel, The Wind (1925), the story of a woman driven to the edge by the endless wind of the West Texas plains, was published anonymously and filmed in 1928 with Lillian Gish.