Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and a woman's life in the Midwest. Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and later taught literature at Columbia University. While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917). She taught creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond, and Carson McCullers who took her first college writing class from Scarborough. Her most critically acclaimed book, The Wind (1925) was later made into a film of the same name, starring Lilian Gish. Amongst her other works are Fugitive Verses (1912), From a Southern Porch (1919), Famous Modern Ghost Stories (Edited 1921), Humorous Ghost Stories (Edited 1921), In the Land of Cotton (1923), Impatient Griselda (1927) and The Story of Cotton (1933).