Bell has won many awards, including the Mr. Christie’s Book Award. His other awards are the Belgium Prize for Excellence, and the Ruth Schwartz Award.

16 books

? Crabbe-(1986)

? Metal Head - (1987)

? Death Wind - (1989)

? Five Days of the Ghost - (1989)

? Forbidden City - (1990)

? No Signature - (1992)

? Speak to the Earth - (1994)

? The Golden Disk - (1995)

? River My Friend - (1996)

? Zack - (1998)

? Stones - (2001)

? Alma—(2003)

? Throwaway Daughter—(2003) ( wrote with his wife Ting-Xing Ye )

? Just Some Stuff I Wrote - (2005)

? The Blue Helmet - (2006)

? Only in the Movies—(2010)

Bell's work has widely published his work outside of Canada; his books have been translated into many languagessuch as French, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, and Japanese. "Stones" and "Five days of the Ghost" and many other novels by Bell, are extensively used in high school course studies.

William Bell has worked in several places, one of which includes China. In China he was an instructor at the Harbin University of Science and Technology and the Foreign Affairs College. Bell has also worked at the Simcoe County Board of Education and at the University of British Columbia. Currently Mr. Bell is the head of the English Department at Orillia District Collegiate.

Bell has a Masters Degree in Literature and another in Education Curriculum and Administration, both of which are from the University of Toronto.