Madison Smartt Bell

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Madison Smartt Bell, who was born on August 1, 1957 in Nashville, Tennessee, is an American novelist.

He is best known for his trilogy of books about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, which were published in 1995–2004.

Early life and education

Madison Smartt Bell, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee, is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy. He attended Princeton University, where he won the Ward Mathis Prize and the Francis Leymoyne Page award, as well as Hollins University, where he won the Andrew James Purdy fiction award. He later lived in New York City and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland.

Personal life

Bell is married to Elizabeth Spires, a writer who also teaches at Goucher College. They have a daughter, Celia Dovell Bell.

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Career

Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where he served as Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004.

Bell has taught in various creative writing workshops, 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 and the New York Times Book Review.

His papers are on display at Princeton University and East Carolina University. The former has papers relating to novels and other writing early in his career, dating back to 1990.

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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.