Thomas Bell (novelist)

Thomas Bell (novelist)

Thomas Bell (1903—1961) was an American novelist.

Bell was born Adalbert Thomas Belejcak on March 7 1903 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA of immigrant Rusyn parents (Mary Krachun and Michael Belejcak) from the village of Nižný Tvarožec. He worked in the steel mills there, beginning at the age of fifteen as an apprentice electrician. In 1922 Bell moved to New York City and worked variously as a mechanic, a merchant seaman, and a bookstore clerk. His first novel, "The Breed of Basil", was published in 1930. From 1933 he devoted all of his time to writing, completing five more novels: "The Second Prince" (1935), "All Brides Are Beautiful" (1936) (also produced as a film called "From This Day Forward"), "Out of This Furnace" (1941), "Till I Come Back to You" (1943) (which had a life on Broadway as "The World Is Full of Girls"), and "There Comes a Time" (1946). Bell, with his wife Marie, moved to California in 1955. He died from cancer on January 17 1961, his own account of which – "In the Midst of Life" – was published posthumously that same year by Atheneum. Bell's reputation as a writer increased dramatically in 1976 when the University of Pittsburgh Press reissued "Out of This Furnace" to wide acclaim.

References

*cite book | author=Bell, Thomas | title=Out of This Furnace | edition=50th Anniversary Edition | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1991, 1976, 1968, 1941 | id=ISBN 0-8229-3690-9


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