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'''Thomas Bell''' (March 7, 1903 – January 17, 1961) was an [[United States|American]] [[novelist]].

Bell was born Adalbert Thomas Belejcak on March 7, 1903 in [[Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Braddock]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[USA]] of immigrant [[Lemko]] [[Rusyns|Rusyn]] parents (Mary Krachun and Michael Belejcak) from the village of [[Nižný Tvarožec]], then in the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], now in the [[Slovak republic]]. 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 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 | isbn=0-8229-3690-9}}

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