Donald Bell (writer)

{{Short description|Canadian journalist}}

{{Confuse|Donald Bell (German journalist)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year|1937}}

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| death_date = {{death year and age|2003|1937}}

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| occupation = Journalist, humorist

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| notableworks = Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory

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Donald Bell (1937–2003) was a Canadian journalist who won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1973 for his book Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory."Bell Receives Award for Most Humorous Book". Brandon Sun, June 25, 1973. The book has also been credited with helping to make the bagel a staple of Montreal's food culture beyond the city's Jewish community alone.Maria Balinska, The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread. Yale University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9780300142327}}. p. 183.

Based in Montreal, Bell was a columnist for Books in Canada and a contributor to various newspapers and magazines. He was an early popularizer of the theory that Thomas Neill Cream, a Canadian medical doctor, was the real Jack the Ripper, through pieces published in both The Criminologist and the Toronto Star."Gruesome twosome: Jack The Ripper: The Bloody Truth by Melvin Harris and Jack: A Novel About Jack The Ripper by Chris Scott". Toronto Star, October 1, 1988.