Pearl Doles Bell was an American author popular during the 1920s. She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on the 2nd of April, most likely in 1884, but possibly the year before. She was the daughter of George W. and Lettie Doles. Her father was a native of Missouri and worked as a water hauler. Her mother was born in Illinois to parents who had come from New York. Bell began writing stories as a young teenager and was working as an elocution teacher while still in her teens.

Her first husband, George H. Bell, worked in real estate and was almost twenty years her senior. Possibly they married in 1914, the year the couple sailed to Naples, Italy. She married her second husband, Gilbert E. Rubens, on 12 October, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Rubens headed the Havana Distillery Company in Cuba and was known for his collection of fine art.

At one time Bell considered herself a "Love Analyst" and thought she would never marry. She enjoyed hunting and fishing and once amazed a crowd in Key West, Florida, by diving thirty feet into shark infested waters. Bell was also admired by many of her contemporaries for her style of dress.

Bell was the author of "Gloria Gray, Love Pirate", (1914), "Her Harvest" (1915), "Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring" (1919), "The Autocrat" (1922), "Sandra" (c.1924), "The Love Link", (c.1925), "Slaves of Destiny" (1926) and "Woman on Margin" (1928). She also worked as script writer for film and radio.

Pearl Doles Bell died at St. Luke's Hospital on Long Island in New York City on 11 March, 1968. Her husband had preceded her in death in 1960 at the age of 76.

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Pearl Doles Bell

Writer