BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2011 – 2012

Madison Smartt Bell

For a biography of Jean Jacques Dessalines

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of some twenty books, including All Souls’ Rising, Devil’s Dream, Toussaint L’ouverture: A Biography, and (most recently) The Color of Night. He is a Professor of English at Goucher College and co-founder of Goucher’s undergraduate creative writing program. In 2008 he was a recipient of a Strauss Living from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on the first English-language biography of the Haitian revolutionary Jean Jacques Dessalines.