Evelyn Scott

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." Personal life She was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and spent her younger years in New Orleans, Louisiana. She later wrote about her childhood in Tennessee in her autobiographical Background in Tennessee. 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. Both Evelyn and her husband took on pseudonyms when they ran away to Brazil together in 1913. 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. She also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton. Scott later married the English writer John Metcalfe in 1930.