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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, most notably for the ''National Enquirer''.  He is now, or was at one time "Professor of English" at Palm Beach Community College.  He was also possibly either on the staff of Case Western Reserve University, or they hosted the Emily Dickinson website, 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  While [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2004/0137.html here] he discusses his book on Shakespeare possible contributions to the King James bible, and cites a URL (now defunct) to an article in the ''Toronto Star'' 16 Jan 2004

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  Some [http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1892582007/ref=cm_cr_pr_redirect reviews] at Amazon
*''Jesus: The Gospel According to Will'', West Palm Beach: PPB Press. 2002. First Edition. Softcover. A Note an Scholarship, prologue, No. 6333. ; 8vo; lxvi + 179 pages.  ISBN 1892582015
*''Lake Osborne History : A Monograph'', PPB Press, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2005. (privately printed, no ISBN)

==Sources==
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=FLmarriageindex%2c&rank=0&gsfn=George+William&gsln=Arnold&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&pcat=34&fh=0&recid=328390&recoff=1+2+3 Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001] showing : "George William Arnold Jr, married 21 Feb 1976, Hillsborough County"
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Arnold&sx=&f6=Lake+Worth&f9=Florida&f5=&f7=&f8=&f2age=&rg_f2__date=&rs_f2__date=0&f10=&f11=&f12=&prox=1&db=people&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=37&fh=17&recid=29646197&recoff=3+17+20+21 US Public Records Index] : "Bill W Arnold, born Feb 1938, Lake Osborne Drive, Fort Worth, Florida; Marie Y Arnold born Aug 1953"
*[http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/scholars/arnold.htm "Bill Arnold"] on Emily Dickinson Org website stating : "Retired Professor of Classics, Adjunct Professor of English, Independent Scholar, Biographer, Literary Critic, Freelance Writer ... West Palm Beach, FL"
*[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 ?] is the author of three books, Emily Dickinson’s Secret Love: Mystery “Master” Behind Poems; Jesus: The Gospel According to Will: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done, and Lake Osborne History. He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.
*''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