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American novelist
Thomas Bell
(March 7, 1903 ? January 17, 1961) was an American
novelist
of
Lemko
origin.
Biography
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Bell was born
Adalbert Thomas Belejcak
on March 7, 1903 in
Braddock
,
Pennsylvania
, United States, of immigrant
Lemko
Rusyn
parents (Mary Krachun and Michael Belejcak) from the village of
Ni?ny Tvaro?ec
, now
Slovakia
(former
Austro-Hungarian Empire
). 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) (produced as a 1946 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's 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
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- Bell, Thomas (1991) [1941].
Out of This Furnace
(50th Anniversary ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
ISBN
0-8229-3690-9
.
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