Scott Corbett was an American children's novelist and writer born on July 27, 1913, in Kansas City.

Corbett was educated at the University of Missouri and worked as a teacher before retiring from that profession in 1965 to write full-time. He had begun publishing adult novels in 1950, among them The Reluctant Landlord, which was adapted into the 1951 film Love Nest. His first children's book, Susie Sneakers, appeared in 1956, marking a turn toward the audience with which he would be most consistently associated. According to a Providence Journal obituary, he went on to produce 81 books in total, while the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, which holds his papers, credits him with at least sixty-seven fiction and nonfiction titles for children. His children's novel The Lemonade Trick is identified as his most prominent work, and his contributions to the genre were recognized with an Edgar Award. Corbett died on March 6, 2006, in Providence.

His body of work spans both fiction and nonfiction for younger readers, with the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection serving as the institutional repository for his papers and manuscript materials.