Background
Scott, Winfield Townley was born on April 30, 1910 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Douglas Winfield and Bessie Irving (Townley) Scott.
Scott, Winfield Townley was born on April 30, 1910 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Douglas Winfield and Bessie Irving (Townley) Scott.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1931. Doctor of Education (honorary), Rhode Island College. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University New Mexico.
He penned an important early appreciation of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) — "His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft" (1944). Another essay on Lovecraft, "Lovecraft as a Poet", first appeared in Rhode Island on Lovecraft (1945) and was reprinted elsewhere in a revised version as "A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet." He corresponded with Lovecraft, and in 1950, advised J. Warren Thomas about a biographical thesis. He was editor of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin
Scott was primarily known for his journals.
He published these as A Dirty Hand (1958).
He corresponded with Ruth Lechlitner. Several of his poems appear in the book, "Dont Forget To Fly", an anthology (that includes many other famous works) collected by Paul B. Janeczko, Bradbury Press, published in 1981.
He died due to a drug reaction in 1968.
("A Dirty Hand": The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Scott,...)
Member of PEN, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Savila B. Harvey, May 22, 1933 (divorced 1946). Married second, Eleanor Metcalf, April. Children: Joel Townley, Susan, Jeannette, Douglas Herrick.