Herbert Edward Arntson (April 8, 1911 – November 27, 1982)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.

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. was a writer of juvenile historical fiction from

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. Arntson attended the

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for his undergraduate and master's degrees, both as an English major. For his doctoral studies he went to the

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. He was married to Dorothy Arntson. He was an English teacher for high school and college students. He headed the creative writing program at

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for 28 years. His collected papers are held at the

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library archives. His historical fiction stories center in and around Oregon's

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during the mid-19th century. He died in

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in 1982.

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