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'''George William Arnold''', (b 1938), English professor and author

Thanks to John Brandon who assisted in gathering some of these details.

There is possibly a different author, also named Bill Arnold, who has writen too books "Make them happy/make them pay", and "Common Sense Success" and has an entry[http://www.wcspeakers.com/listings.cfm?search_topic=Team+Building&search_subtopic=+ "Bill Arnold"] on the website "World Class Speakers and Entertainers".

George William "Bill" Arnold was born in 1938 in St Petersburg, [[Florida]].  He attended the University of Massachusetts, graduating in 1964, and receiving his M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of [[Massachusetts]] (evidently in 1967 ?).  He served in the USAF, stationed in Puerto Rico.  He later became a college professor of English in Massachusetts and Florida,  and a Copy Editor for many publications, as well as a journalist.  He is now, or was at one time "Professor of English" at Palm Beach Community College.  He was also at Case Western Reserve University, as this now-defunct URL affixed to the end of an [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2004/0137.html old message] of his from 2004 attests http://www.case.edu/affil/edis/scholars/arnold.htm

Bill Arnold married Marie Parent in 1976 in Tampa Florida.  He is currently retired and lives in West Palm Beach (or vicinity), Florida (as of 2007).

==Works==
*''Emily Dickinson's Secret Love : Mystery "Master" Behind Poems'', PPB Press, Lake Worth, Florida, 1998, ISBN 1892582007
*''Jesus: The Gospel According to Will''
*''Lake Osborne History : A Monograph'', PPB Press, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2005. (privately printed, no ISBN)
*''Rememberances of the Pacific Electric'', c2000: _b t.p. (Bill Arnold)

==Sources==
*[http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/scholars/arnold.htm "Bill Arnold"] on Emily Dickinson Org website stating : "Retired Professor of Classics, Adjunct Professor of English..."
*[http://umassmag.com/2006/Fall06/ClassNotes/bookmarks.html "Book Marks"] at UMASS magazine, by Linda C Smith, Fall 2006 stating : "Bill Arnold, '64, '67G" [i.e. graduated in the Class of 64, and 67 as a Graduate student ?]
*''The Coastal Observer'' (Lake Worth, Florida), 31 Mar 2005 "Arnold Still Setting Record Straight", by Leonard Saffir : "...Bill Arnold of Lake Worth...now 66....This self-described writer, poet, author, journalist, reported, researcher, stringer, photographer, scholar, free lance writer and teacher of English comp at assorted learning institutions... Arnold bought his lakeside home in 1990.... Arnold was born in 1938 in St Petersburg....He was a professor of English at Amherst and Palm Beach Community College.... From 1983-89 he was a reporter-freelancer for the National Enquirer, when it was headquarterd in Lantana." [includes a picture of Bill Arnold]

==Further reading==
*[http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2004/0137.html A posting] on Shaksper.net where Bill speaks about his book