Alling's story provided the loose inspiration for Away, an acclaimed 2007 novel by Amy Bloom.

A reading by Amy Bloom from her new novel.

No One's Fault Main Chatting with Amy Bloom

So, apparently, does Amy Bloom.

Nobody can accuse Amy Bloom of sugar-coating old age in the quartet of stories about William and Clare.

Amy Bloom s book of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, will be published in January.

Amy Bloom (born 1953) is an American writer.

"It's sort of a little hallucinogenic," said Amy Bloom, a fiction finalist in 1993 and a judge this year in the fiction category.

Amy Bloom: But I think the stain of the commercial actually works both ways.

Amy Bloom is a psychotherapist.