David Bell is the New York Times-bestselling author of seventeen novels, including She’s Gone with Sourcebooks Fire; Storm Warning, Try Not to Breathe, The Finalists, Kill All Your Darlings, The Request, Layover, Somebody’s Daughter, Bring Her Home, Since She Went Away, Somebody I Used to Know, The Forgotten Girl, Never Come Back, The Hiding Place, and Cemetery Girl with Berkley/New American Library; and finally The Girl in the Woods and The Condemned with Delirium Books (under the pen name David Jack Bell). Mysterious Press also published his novella, Rides a Stranger, as part of their bibliomystery series.
His work has been translated into numerous foreign languages, included on bestseller lists (including The New York Times, USA Today, IndieBound, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Parnassus Books and more), nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, and, in 2013, won the prestigious Prix Polar International de Cognac for best crime novel by an international author. Kill All Your Darlings was also a finalist for a 2022 Edgar Award.
He is a professor of English at Western Kentucky University where he co-founded the MFA program in creative writing. A native of Cincinnati, he spends his free time rooting for the Reds and Bengals, watching movies, and walking in the cemetery near his house. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with his spouse, author M Hendrix.