Literature
- John Bell (publisher) (1745–1831), English publisher
- John Bell (folk music) (1783–1864), English folk song collector
- John Bell (traveller) (1691–1780), Scottish traveller and author
- John Joy Bell (1871–1934), Scottish author
- John Bell (historian) (born 1952), Canadian archivist and comic book historian
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“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
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