Alexander Eliot studied art at Loomis Institute in Windsor. At Black Mountain College in New York, Eliot focused on art with Josef Albers and Stage Studies with Xanti Schawinsky. At the end of his second year at Black Mountain, Eliot left to attend the Boston Museum School. He and his first wife Ann Dick set up a gallery, the Pinckney Street Artists’ Alliance. When it made no money, the Eliots moved to New York where Alex Eliot joined the Associated American Artists Gallery and then worked for the March of Time Newsreel. During World War II, Eliot worked for the Office of War Information.

After the war Eliot became art editor (1945-60) at Time. The success of this book 'Three Hundred Years of American Painting' plus a Guggenheim Fellowship for "Studies of Greece and the Middle East as Spiritual Cradles of the Western World" enabled him and his second wife Jane Winslow Eliot to fulfill their wish to rear their children abroad, where they would be exposed to different languages and cultures.

Eliot’s books include: Proud Youth (1953), Love Play: A Novel Entertainment (1966), Socrates: The Person and the Portent (1967), Myths (1976), Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others (with contributions by Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade) (1990), The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred and Scientific Mythologies (1993), and The Timeless Myths: How Ancient Legends Influence the World Around Us (1996).

Author of eighteen books and hundreds of essays in magazines as varied as The Eastern Buddhist and England's Systematics, Eliot continues his writing. In 1977 Eliot retired Professor Emeritus from Hampshire College.

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