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Name
  
Madison Bell


Role
  
Novelist

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Education
  
Hollins University (1981), Princeton University

Awards
  
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Dos Passos Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nominations
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction

Books
  
All Souls' Rising, Master of the crossroads, Narrative design, The stone that the builder re, Toussaint Louverture: A Biograp

Similar People
  
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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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Early life and education

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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

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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.

Awards

  • All Souls' Rising, a novel about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race.
  • He won a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • References

    Madison Smartt Bell Wikipedia