Eleanor Dark

Eleanor Dark
Dark, about 1945, photographed
by Max Dupain
Born(1901-08-26)26 August 1901
Died11 September 1985(1985-09-11) (aged 84)
EducationRedlands College for Girls
Alma materStott & Hoare’s Business College
OccupationAuthor
Notable work
SpouseEric Payten Dark
AwardsAustralian Literature Society Gold Medal
Alice Award (1978)

Eleanor Dark AO (26 August 1901  11 September 1985) was an Australian writer whose novels included Prelude to Christopher (1934) and Return to Coolami (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work The Timeless Land (1941).