Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist.
Raised in Nashville, Bell is a graduate of Princeton University, where he won the Ward Mathis Prize and the Francis LeMoyne Page award, and Hollins University, where he won the Andrew James Purdy fiction award.
[1] He later lived in New York City and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004.
[7] Bell is married to poet Elizabeth Spires, who also teaches at Goucher College.