Bob Arnebeck
About the Author Bob Arnebeck was born in Washington, DC, in 1947 and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, and then got a B.A. in English Literature and Composition at Beloit College in Wisconsin. He produced his own play, "Boom Power: a history of the Ford Motor Company," in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was described as a "fascinating failure" in Boston After Dark. He worked briefly at the American Revolution Bicentennial Commissioner where he leaked documents that informed three days of front page articles in the Washington Post. He briefly worked for the People's Bicentennial Commission. Then he worked as a free lance writer primarily for the Washington Post Magazine. He wrote many articles on historical topics, and briefly was a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. In 1994, he moved with his wife and son to a large island in the St. Lawrence River where he observed otters and beavers and fo...