Madison Smartt Bell
Forfatter af All Souls' Rising
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Madison Smartt Bell was born and raised in Tennessee; he studied at Princeton University and Hollins College. He has taught in a variety of capacities, including the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, the University of Southern Maine, Goucher College, and as a vis mere Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Much of his writing, which reflects a concern with race relations, has been critically acclaimed. Bell was awarded the 1989 Lillian Smith Award for Soldier's Joy. His 1996 historical novel All Soul's Rising was nominated for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. All Soul's Rising, which depicts the slave uprising in Haiti in the late eighteenth century, also led to his selection to the Granta's list of Best Young American Novelists. His books include The Washington Square Ensemble (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985), Straight Cut (1986), The Year of Silence (1987), Zero dB (1987), Soldier's Joy (1989), Barking Man (1990), Doctor Sleep (1991), Save Me, Joe Lewis (1993), and All Soul's Rising (1996). His short stories have been frequently anthologized, including selection for the annual Best American Short Stories for 1984, 1987, 1989, and 1990. Bell teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) Madison Smartt Bell is the author of eleven previous works of fiction, including All Souls' Rising, which was a National Book Award finalist; Save Me, Joe Louis; Dr. Sleep; Soldier's Joy; and Ten Indians. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Madison Smartt Bell
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (2005) 194 eksemplarer
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragyder — 510 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Bidragyder — 133 eksemplarer
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 60 eksemplarer
Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South (1996) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1957-08-01
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Bopæl
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Uddannelse
- Princeton University
Hollins University - Relationer
- Spires, Elizabeth (wife)
- Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Andrew James Purdy fiction award
Ward Mathis Prize
Francis Leymoyne Page award
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction (1995)
John Dos Passos Prize (2001)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
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Really disjointed and jarringly edited in some places. Went from "this happened, then this happened, then this happened" type of history, and would then make a sudden jump to another event without any real transition. Don't know if this was the writer or the editor, but it doesn't really matter. I need to look elsewhere for a biography of Lavoisier.
(Also, one of my pet peeves: there were sections/poems in the original French, with no translation into English.)
(Also, one of my pet peeves: there were sections/poems in the original French, with no translation into English.)
Excellent book for fans of Madison Smartt Bell. Goes into his life from the beginning. The people he knew. How the things he experienced are reflected in his work.
An early personal favorite, Bell is one of those writers who defies categorization and at times even description, his work somehow managing to track the borderland between experimental mind games and the solid characterization and description of mainstream literary fiction. A synthesis of mind and heart told in a language that matches the subtle virtuosity we’ve come to associate with his work, Bell’s thirteenth novel, Behind the Moon, does nothing to diminish his legacy.
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That story fills Parts I and II of the book, about 135 pages! Almost 60% of the book!
Then there is a heroin sub-plot, complete with a skin-diving maneuver?!??
It's not a very good read, in my opinion.… (mere)