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MADISON SMARTT BELL Madison Smartt Bell is the author of eleven novels, including The Washington Square Ensemble (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985) Straight Cut (1986), The Year of Silence (1987), Doctor Sleep (1991), Save Me, Joe Louis (1993), Ten Indians (1996), Master of the Crossroads (2000) and Soldier’s Joy, which received the Lillian Smith Award in 1989. Bell has also published two collections of short stories: Zero db (1987) and Barking Man (1990). His eighth novel, All Soul’s Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. His eleventh, Anything Goes, was published by Pantheon in 2002. The final volume of his Haitian trilogy, The Stone that the Builder Refused, was published by Pantheon in fall, 2004. Born and raised in Tennessee, he has lived in New York and in London and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Princeton University (A.B. 1979) and Hollins College (M.A. 1981), he has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Since 1984 he has taught at Goucher College, along with his wife, the poet Elizabeth Spires. He is currently Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College, and has been a member of the Fellowship of the Southern Writers since 2003. For more details, visit http://faculty.goucher.edu/mbell.
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