Biography:

University professor. Born– October 31, 1921, Birmingham. Parents– Joseph L. and Pansy Stewart Bell. Education– Howard College, A.B., 1942; Birmingham Conservatory of Music, B.M., 1948; Middlebury College, M.A., 1949; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1960. Served as a translator-interpreter for the U. S. Armed Forces in Europe; taught at Lycee Claude Bernard, Paris, 1949-1950; Columbia University, 1957-1960; Mount Holyoke College, 1961-1976;  University of Alabama in Birmingham after 1979. Awarded grants from the American Philosophical Society and Mt. Holyoke. Honors; Clarke F. Ansley Prize awarded by Columbia University Press.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, and Jane McRae, Bessemer, Ala.

Publication(s):

Cocteau, La Machine Infernale. New York; Dell, 1968.

Proust’s Noturnal Muse. New York; Columbia University Press, 1962.

Editor:

Marcel Proust, Un Amour de Swann. New York; Macmillan, 1965.