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Texas Originals: Novelist Dorothy Scarborough
DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH (January 27, 1878–November 7, 1935) In 1925, an anonymous novel called The Wind spotlighted the West Texas town of Sweetwater. The Wind told the tragic tale of Letty Mason, a Virginian who moves to Sweetwater during the drought-stricken 1880s. By book's end, Letty has committed murder and suicide—driven in part by the relentless West Texas wind.In 1925, Harper & Brothers first published The Wind anonymously "as a marketing gimmick," writes scholar Sylvia Grider. Image... Read More