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Alice Elliott Dark

Biography

Alice Elliott Dark

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the national bestseller FELLOWSHIP POINT and THINK OF ENGLAND, and two collections of short stories, IN THE GLOAMING and NAKED TO THE WAIST. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. She is the director of Rutgers-Newark MFA program.

Alice Elliott Dark

Books by Alice Elliott Dark

In the Gloaming
by Alice Elliott Dark - Fiction

Now in a stand-alone edition, Alice Elliott Dark’s celebrated and masterful work of literary short fiction, IN THE GLOAMING depicts a loving mother, Janet, caring for her adult son, Laird, in the last months of his life during the early AIDS era. The gloaming is the hour of changing light at dawn or dusk, when the world is as purple as the Scottish Highlands on a summer night. As mother and son sit together in the gathering darkness, a powerfully intimate conversation unfolds between them that shifts their understanding of each other and gives them strength for their final farewell.

Fellowship Point
by Alice Elliott Dark - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy --- to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels and permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly Wister, who exalts in creating beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons. But what is it that Polly wants herself?