Pearl Doles Bell (April 2, 1883 – March 11, 1968) was an American novelist, film scenarist, radio script writer, and editor.

The Bells lived in Brooklyn, where Pearl decorated their apartment with hand-painted frescoes, refashioned furniture, hand-embroidered hangings, and a garden.

"[2] On Monday, November 24, 1913, she made the front page of the New York Times for her "daring feat" of diving with sharks in Key West.

[7] To research her third novel, Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring, Bell traveled for six weeks with Ringling Brothers Circus.

[14] Bell's sixth novel, The Love Link, about a flapper who saves her parents' rocky marriage with her antics, was listed as a "popular copyright" by the American News Trade Journal in 1926.

Variety reported that Bell had instructed her lawyers to sue Famous Players–Lasky in October 1925, asserting that their film The Pony Express used her story without the rights.

[24] Pearl Doles Bell married Havana distiller and art collector Gilbert E. Rubens on October 12, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York.