Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) was an American novelist and playwright. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza, Elsie Dunn, Mrs. Wellman and Mrs. Metcalfe. Her works Precipitations (1920), Love (1920), The Narrow House (1921), Narcissus (1922), Escapade (1923), The Golden Door (1925), In the Endless Sands (1925), An Arabesque in Histories (1927), Ideals (1927), The Wave (1929), Witch A Story of the Kentucky Hills (1929), The Winter Alone (1930), Blue Rum (1930), A Calendar of Sin (1931), Breathe Upon those Slain (1934), Billy the Maverick (1934) and Background in Tennessee (1937).
Evelyn Scott 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.