Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest.

The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College.

Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction that the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work".

[1] Dorothy Scarborough came in contact with many writers in New York, including Edna Ferber and Vachel Lindsay.

[1] Her most critically acclaimed book, The Wind (first published anonymously in 1925), was later made into a film of the same name starring Lillian Gish.