Ted Bell

Ted Bell is an American author of suspense novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, and Spy and Warlord and Phantom. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels featuring the character Lord Alexander Hawke.

Before becoming a novelist, he was President and Chief Creative Officer of the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago. He was later named Vice-Chairman of the Board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. At age 25, he sold his first Hollywood screenplay, 'Screamathon' to producers Joel B. Michaels and Garth Drabinsky.

Bell is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, with a B.A. in English. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Order. He is a former member of the college's Board of Trustees. He was given an Honorary degree in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

For the years 2011-2012, Bell was elected a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University (UK) completing his studies at Cambridge's Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS). He was also elected to the position of Writer-In-Residence, Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge University (UK).

DOCA,a Department of Defense committee, selected Bell as a civilian member of the standing group that supports the US military. He also served for a brief time as an advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department. He serves on the Advisory Board of General George Washington's Mount Vernon (in Fairfax County, Virginia) under former Secretary of the Army, Togo D. West, Jr. Bell's former wife is Greenwich, Connecticut-based Evelyn Byrd Lorentzen (known as Evelyn Lorentzen Bell), a relative of the founder of Richmond, Virginia, William Byrd II. Their daughter, Evelyn Byrd Bell, is a well-known model and actress who lives in Los Angeles, California.

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