Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell is Professor of English and Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College. He is the author of twelve novels, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, and most recently Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore. (July 2008)

From the Review

July 17, 2008: A Hidden Haitian World

Massacre River by René Philoctète, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale, with a preface by Edwidge Danticat and an introduction by Lyonel Trouillot

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French and with an introduction by Linda Coverdale

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

Thérèse en mille morceaux by Lyonel Trouillot

Bicentenaire by Lyonel Trouillot

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the French by Harriet de Onìs

Anthologie secrète by Carl Brouard

December 20, 2007: At Home in Paradise

Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan

Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver

Daniel Boone: His Own Story by Daniel Boone

The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman C. Draper, edited by Ted Franklin Belue

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone edited by Neal O. Hammon

A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone by Peter Houston, edited by Ted Franklin Belue

The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems by Robert Morgan

The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories by Robert Morgan

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner