Lilian Lida Bell (pen name, Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue; 1867–1929) was an American novelist and travel writer.

On being questioned by a judicious literary friend, and telling him that all of her work found a ready acceptance, he exclaimed: "The very worst thing that could happen to a girl like you!"

Shortly after its appearance, she received by express a beautiful marquise ring, consisting of a gorgeous sapphire surrounded by diamonds.

[3] Bell went to Europe for the purpose of "copy," and thereafter wrote, The Expatriates (1902), a story of the American colony in Paris—of the life where the Faubourg Saint-Germain and the Arc de Triomphe meet.

With an appreciation of what is dramatic material, Bell seized upon the notorious fire at the Bazar de la Charité for the opening chapter of her story.

This may have been the first time that the frightful catastrophe of the Rue Jean-Goujon was brought into fiction; and in The Expatriates, the event and the grim irony attendant upon it were treated with tragic power.