Carruth was born in 1881 in
Cleveland, Ohio. She attended
Flora Stone Mather College and
Western Reserve University which are both in Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Smith College in
Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1903. In 1907, Carruth married mathematics professor William M. Carruth, who taught at
Hamilton College in
Clinton, New York. She worked for the Kirkland Library in Clinton as a part of the Board of Trustees and helped lead the creation of the library's Historical Room. She wrote for many publications including the
Journal of Home Economics and
Yankee. She sometimes wrote under the pen name Delane Heath. After her husband died in 1943, Carruth moved to
Winter Park, Florida, in Alabama to live at a hotel. While in Winter Park, she worked as a part of the Winter Park Library and the Science Library at Rollins College. ==Career and death==