Answer Before Dark
| Title | Answer Before Dark |
| Year of Publication | 1930 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 298 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Moorhead, Elizabeth |
| Publisher | The Bobbs-Merrill Company |
| City | Indianapolis |
| Keywords | artists; Carnegie International; juried art competitions; painters; Protestants; Roman Catholics; steel industry |
| Abstract | Mary Ann Braeburn, daughter of high-society Pittsburghers, defers a marriage proposal from a steel executive in order to pursue her dream of being selected for the Carnegie International, America's oldest competition of international art. |
| Notes | Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Technical Institute; Bob O’Connor Golf Course at Schenley Park is Schenley Park Golf Course. |
| Author Biography | Elizabeth Moorhead Vermorcken (1866-1955) was born after the Civil War to an old Pittsburgh family. When her father's steel business failed in the 1890s, she lived in Paris a few years and married, but returned after that failed. From 1910 to 1929 Moorhead taught literature at Carnegie Tech. In retirement, she wrote full time, beginning with Clouded Hills, then two other novels and a memoir. She died in 1955 as a resident of the Schenley Hotel in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and is buried at Allegheny Cemetery. |
| Time | 1920s |
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