|PostNazionalità = conosciuta con lo pseudonimo '''bellBell hooksHooks'''.<ref name="pen-name">{{Cita news|autore=Dinitia Smith|titolo=Tough arbiter on the web has guidance for writers|pubblicazione=The New York Times|data=28 settembre 2006|p=E3|citazione=But the Chicago Manual says it is not all right to capitalize the name of the writer bell hooks because she insists that it be lower case.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/books/28chic.html}}</ref> Il nome "bell hooks" deriva da quello della bisnonna materna, Bell Blair Hooks.<ref>hooks, bell, "Inspired Eccentricity: Sarah and Gus Oldham" in Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer (eds),''Family: American Writers Remember Their Own'', New York: Vintage Books, 1996, p. 152.</ref>
