Editing John Bellairs (section)

=== Career and interests ===
Bellairs taught English at the [[College of Saint Teresa]] (1963–65), [[Shimer College]] (1966–67), [[Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)|Emmanuel College]] (1968–69), and [[Merrimack College]] (1969–71) before turning full-time to writing in 1971. During the late 1960s, he spent six months living and writing in [[Bristol]], [[United Kingdom]], where he began writing ''[[The Face in the Frost]]''. Bristol would later feature in his 1990 novel ''The Secret of the Underground Room''.

His personal interests included archaeology, architecture, history, Latin, baseball, kitschy antiques, bad poetry, visits to the UK, and trivia of all kinds.<ref name=":0" /> His favorite authors included [[Charles Dickens]], [[Henry James]], [[M.R. James]], [[Garrett Mattingly]], and [[C. V. Wedgwood]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=John Bellairs|url=https://lookingglassreview.com/html/profile_17.html|access-date=2021-08-29|website=lookingglassreview.com}}</ref>

Alongside [[Christopher Tolkien]], Bellairs was a guest of honor at the 18th Annual Mythopoeic Conference at [[Marquette University]] in 1987, hosted by the [[Mythopoeic Society]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hyde|first=Paul|date=1986-10-15|title=Quenti Lambardillion|url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol13/iss1/6|journal=Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature|volume=13|issue=1|page=33|issn=0146-9339}}</ref>