Discipline: Literature

Madison Bell

Discipline: Literature
Region: Baltimore, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983
Madison Bell is an American author and educator from Nashville. Throughout his youth, Bell lived in New York and London before his family settled in Maryland. A graduate of Princeton and Hollins University, Bell received recognition for his work while attending school, receiving the Ward Mathias Prize, the Francis Leymoyne Page Award, and the Andrew Hanes Purdy Fiction Award. After completing his studies, Bell taught creative writing in various programs, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and as a professor of English at Goucher College, where Bell was the director of the creative writing program. Bell’s work has been featured in several publications, such as Harpers, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Village Voice. Bell’s published works include The Washington Square Ensemble (1983), The Year of Silence (1989), Barking Man (1991), All Souls Rising (1995) which won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book of the year, Master of the Crossroads (2000), The Color of the Night (2011), and Behind the Moon (2017). Bell was the recipient of the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Star

Madison Bell worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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