Editing Madison Smartt Bell (section)

{{short description|American author}}
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| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1957|08|01}}
| birth_place      = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
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| notable_works    = ''All Souls' Rising''
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'''Madison Smartt Bell''' (born August 1, 1957, [[Nashville, Tennessee]]) is an American novelist.  While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about [[Toussaint Louverture]] and the [[Haitian Revolution]], published 1995–2004.