Helen Norris Bell (June 22, 1916 – November 18, 2013)[1] was an American novelist and short story author who was Poet Laureate of Alabama from 1999 to 2003.
Although most of Norris' work can be considered southern literature she also wrote many stories set in many places around the world, often preferring to write what she imagined to what she knew.
The book, though launched with a party attended by Margaret Mitchell,[2] was not a commercial success.
Norris stopped writing after the birth of her children but began again in the 1950s with one novel unpublished until the 1980s and another, For the Glory of God, that was published in 1958.
In 1966 she began teaching English at Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama until her retirement in 1979.