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Alice Elliott Dark

Biography

Alice Elliott Dark

Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels FELLOWSHIP POINT and THINK OF ENGLAND, as well as two collections of short stories: IN THE GLOAMING and NAKED TO THE WAIST. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films and was chosen for inclusion in Best American Stories of the Century. Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is an associate professor at Rutgers-Newark in the MFA program.

Alice Elliott Dark

Books by Alice Elliott Dark

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?