Editing Madison Smartt Bell (section)

==Career==
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.<ref>[http://faculty.goucher.edu/mbell/ Madison Smartt Bell - Portrait d'un Ecrivain], goucher.edu. Accessed March 22, 2024.</ref> He taught in various creative writing programs, including the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]], the Poetry Center of the [[92nd Street Y]], and the [[Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars]].

In addition, he has written essays and reviews for ''[[Harper's]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://harpers.org/author/madisonsmarttbell/|title=Madison Smartt Bell|magazine=Harper's Magazine|access-date=May 23, 2022}}</ref> ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/authors/13793|title=Madison Smartt Bell |work=The New York Review of Books|access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref> and the ''[[New York Times|New York Times Book Review]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17bell.html|title=Haiti in Ink and Tears: A Literary Sampler|date= January 17, 2010|first=Madison Smartt|last= Bell|work=The New York Times|access-date= January 10, 2016}}</ref>

His papers are held at Princeton University<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C0771&kw=|title=Madison Smartt Bell Papers (C0771) -- Madison Smartt Bell Papers|access-date= January 10, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610162355/http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C0771&kw=|archive-date=June 10, 2011}}</ref> and at East Carolina University. The latter contains papers related to novels and other writing early in his career, up to 1990.<ref>[https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/1169-001 Stuart Wright Collection: Madison Smartt Bell Papers, 1922–1990 (#1169-001)], East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University.</ref>