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Evelyn Scott | |
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| Born | Elise Dunn January 17, 1893 |
| Died | August 3, 1963 (aged 70) |
| Spouse | Frederick Creighton Wellman |
Evelyn Scott (born as Elsie Dunn January 17, 1893 – died August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion."[1]
She was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and spent her younger years in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] She later wrote about her childhood in Tennessee in her autobiographical Background in Tennessee.[3]
Her first husband was Frederick Creighton Wellman. He was a married man when they met and dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Tulane.[2] Both Evelyn and her husband took on pseudonyms when they ran away to Brazil together in 1913.[2] Frederick changed his name to Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn also took Scott as her surname. The two had a son together, Creighton, but were divorced in 1928.[4][2] She also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton.[3]
Scott later married the English writer John Metcalfe in 1930.[5][4]
She sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Ernest Souza, and under her birth name, Elsie Dunn.
