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Scarborough was born on January 27, 1878 in Mount Carmel, Texas, United States. He was the youngest of the four children of John B. and Mary (Ellison) Scarborough.
Her father, a lawyer, was born in Louisiana and her mother was a native of Texas. While Dorothy was still young the family moved to Sweetwater, Texas, and thence, soon after, to Waco, where her childhood was spent.
Dorothy was a precocious pupil, making rapid progress in the public schools of Waco and in Baylor University, from which she received the degree of A. B. in 1896 and that of A. M. , with a major in English, two years later. She studied at the University of Chicago.
In 1915 she went to Columbia University for graduate work, and there in 1917 received the degree of Ph. D. Her dissertation, entitled The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, was published by the Columbia University Press in the same year.
Dorothy was appointed instructor in English at Baylor, and is said to have been the first college teacher of journalism and short-story writing in the Southwest. Using her summer vacations for advanced work in English at Oxford University, England, she continued to teach at Baylor until 1915.
She was instructor in English at Columbia, 1916-18; lecturer, 1919-22; assistant professor, 1923-31; and associate professor from 1931. In 1917-18 she was a member of the literary staff of the New York Sun.
In 1923 she helped to found the Writers' Club, the aim of which was to bring together students of the art of writing and successful authors and playwrights. It soon had a membership of more than five hundred.
Her first published book was Fugitive Verses, printed in Texas in 1912. A volume of essays, From a Southern Porch, appeared in 1919 and two anthologies, Famous Modern Ghost Stories and Humorous Ghost Stories, in 1921. Besides various magazine stories she published several novels, using in all of them her intimate knowledge of the South. The first, In the Land of Cotton, issued by Macmillan in 1923; The Wind, appeared anonymously in 1925. These were followed by Impatient Griselda (1927); Can't Get a Red Bird (1929); and The Stretch-Berry Smile (1932). The Story of Cotton appeared in 1933 and another anthology, Selected Short Stories of Today, in 1935.
Her field work in Southern folklore resulted in two volumes. The first, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, issued in 1925 by the Harvard Press, was a valuable contribution to the subject. The second, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains, the product of "Project 41" sponsored with adequate recording equipment by the Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities, was practically complete before her untimely death and was published posthumously by the Columbia University Press in 1937.
She died at her home in New York City, after a brief illness of influenza.
Dorothy Scarborough was well-known as the teacher of creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond, and Carson McCullers. Her chief professional interests as a writer were the technique of the short story and first-hand study of the folklore of the S. Her famous short stories: Fugitive Verses (1912), Famous Modern Ghost Stories and Humorous Ghost Stories (1921), Impatient Griselda (1927) and others. Her famous works in Southern folklore: On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (1925), A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains.
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Her avocations included politics - Dorothy was twice chosen a delegate to the Republican county committee from her district.
Dorothy is described as small in stature with copper-colored hair and gray-green eyes, animated and friendly and effective as a lecturer.
There is no information about her marital status.
