Alden Bell lives in New York with his wife the Edgar-award-winning novelist Megan Abbott. For the past nine years he has taught high school English at an Upper East Side prep school (a modern orthodox co-educational Yeshiva). Since 2002 he has also taught literature and cultural studies courses as an adjunct professor at the New School. Prior to coming to New York he grew up in the heart of Orange County: Anaheim home of Disneyland. He graduated from Berkeley with a degree in English and a minor in creative writing where his instructors included Bharati Mukherjee Leonard Michaels and Maxine Hong Kingston. In 2000 he received his Master's and Ph. D. in English at New York University specializing in twentieth-century American and British literature. Language: English