Madison Smartt Bell

Biography

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of two short story collections and thirteen novels, including All Soul’s Rising (Penguin, 1996), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His most recent novel is The Color of Night (Vintage, 2011). A professor at Goucher College since 1984, Bell has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.

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See Work

FICTION / Summer 2012

Red Stick

By Madison Smartt Bell
FICTION / Fall 2004

Dead Letter

By Madison Smartt Bell

Coachy, to whom Papa Toussaint had given the two letters for Paul Louverture, led their way south from Point Samana toward Santo Domingo City. Coachy had been to that place before, not so long ago, when Papa Toussaint had sent his army to...

Autumn 2000

Whose God to Follow?

By Madison Smartt Bell