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    Evelyn Scott (writer)

    American novelist and playwright

    Evelyn Scott (born Elsie Dunn, January 17, – August 3, ) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, she "was a significant literary figure in the s and s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion".[1]

    Personal life

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    Dunn was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, and spent her younger years in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] She wrote about her childhood in her autobiographical Background in Tennessee.[3]

    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.[2] Both took on pseudonyms when they ran away to Brazil together in [2] He became Cyril Kay-Scott and she took Scott as her surname. The two had a son, Creighton, before divorcing in [4][2] She also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton.[3]

    Scott married the English writer John Metcalfe in [5][4]

    Literary career

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

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    Fiction

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    • The Narrow House. New York: Boni & Liveright,

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      Evelyn Scott

      Novelist

      By Arian Finley

      Evelyn Scott was born Elsie Dunn in Clarksville, TN in This would by no means tie the often-overlooked author to the traditional beliefs and values of typical Southerners of her time. Well-learned through self-teachings and private tutors and with access to many resources, she was greatly inspired by philosophers and scholars such as Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Marx. As a youth, she held very controversial beliefs. She had interest in writing, and used her writings to advocate fair treatment for blacks, poor people, and women.

      At 16, she moved to New Orleans with her family, where she published her first story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune under pen name Hiram Hagen Beck. She studied Arts at Sophie Newcomb College. Eventually, in she stirred up even more controversy, by marrying the dean of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine at Tulane University, Frederick Creighton Wellman. Dunn and Wellman changed their names to Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott respectively and left New Orleans for England, before they took residence in Brazil. In , Evelyn Scott would give birth to a son they named Creighton. She returned to the United States in and published Precipitations, her first collection of Poetry.&

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