David Avrom Bell is an American historian specializing in French history.
Bell was born into a Jewish family in New York City in 1961.
[citation needed] He is the son of sociologist Daniel Bell and literary critic Pearl Kazin Bell[1][2] (Alfred Kazin's sister).
in History and Literature at Harvard University in 1983, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
in history in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1991, both at Princeton University.