Theodore Augustus Bell III was an American author of suspense novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Warlord, Phantom, and Overkill, novels he wrote after turning away from an award-winning career as an advertising copywriter and creative director to pursue writing. Bell studied English at Randolph–Macon College in 1969. After graduating he worked briefly as a copywriter for Welsh Advertising in Hartford and at Tinker, Dodge & Delano in New York. At 25 he sold his first Hollywood scr... moreTheodore Augustus Bell III was an American author of suspense novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Warlord, Phantom, and Overkill, novels he wrote after turning away from an award-winning career as an advertising copywriter and creative director to pursue writing. Bell studied English at Randolph–Macon College in 1969. After graduating he worked briefly as a copywriter for Welsh Advertising in Hartford and at Tinker, Dodge & Delano in New York. At 25 he sold his first Hollywood screenplay, Screamathon and right after he got recruited by Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency, where he eventually became vice president and creative director. He also joined Young & Rubicam, where he and his collaborators won seven Clio advertising awards, three Cannes Gold Lions awards in creativity and the Cannes Lions Grand Prix award. Bell retired in his early 50s to pursue a writing career, his first published novel was Hawke in 2003. He went on to publish several sequence novels about British spy named Alex Hawke, who was likened to James Bond. His books were a success with at least eight of 14 novels logged on the The New York Times best seller lists.
