Millicent Bell (1919–2015) was a literary critic and translator whose final book was Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism (Yale University Press, 2002). A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she also wrote volumes on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and John Marquand; her Marquand: An American Life (Little, Brown, 1979) was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.