Name Madison Bell | Role Novelist | |
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Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Dos Passos Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books All Souls' Rising, Master of the crossroads, Narrative design, The stone that the builder re, Toussaint Louverture: A Biograp Similar People Elizabeth Spires, William T Vollmann, Henry S Taylor | ||
Madison smartt bell on guitar and novels
Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957 Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist. He is known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995–2004.
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- Madison smartt bell on guitar and novels
- Author profile madison smartt bell
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Author profile madison smartt bell
Early life and education
Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Madison Smartt Bell lived in New York City, and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he won the Ward Mathis Prize and the Francis Leymoyne Page award, and Hollins University, where he won the Andrew James Purdy fiction award.
Career
Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004.
Bell has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
In addition, he has written essays and reviews for Harper's, The New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice.
His papers are held at Princeton.
Personal life
Bell is married to the poet Elizabeth Spires. They have a daughter, Celia Dovell Bell.