Arnie Bernstein 🟦 Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Ghostwriting your memoir. Penning your corporate history. Putting together a family story. Guiding you through the narrative nonfiction process. Developing a book proposal that agents and publishers want. Sharing my writing experience and talents for your workshop. Providing insight for your broadcast or podcast. I've got you covered.

Tutoring in writing, history, editing, and other topics. Work with middle school through adult learners, to help hone and develop inherent abilities

Greater New York City Area

My book "Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund" is now available from from Picador. Polish translation available from Rebus Press in Poland.

My book "Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund" is now available from St. Martin's Press. A Polish translation is in the works.

Author of true account "Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing." I was honored in 2010 by the State Library of Michigan as one of 20 "Notable Authors" for this book

I teach both Composition 101 and Composition 102, the nuts and bolts of writing and beginning studies of literature. As an instructor, I help each student discover his/her respective inner writer and how to develop a natural voice on the page which can be used in other classes and beyond graduation into the working world.

Cicero, Il

I teach both developmental writing and college composition 101 classes. My students are largely first or second generation American; the majority are either immigrants or children of immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries.As an instructor, I help each student discover his/her respective inner writer and how to develop a natural voice on the page which can be used in other classes and beyond graduation into the working world.

Ghost writing book proposal for private client. My work includes interviewing this individual, reviewing private papers/scrapbooks/photos, putting together this material into proposal sections, marketing plan, and sample chapters.

Three books published by Lake Claremont PressHollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 & Years of Chicago and the Movies (1999)The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews & Essays (introduction by Roger Ebert), 2000The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections (foreword by Senator Paul Simon), 2003Hollywood on Lake Michigan: Chicago and the Movies, 2nd Edition, co-written with Michael Cochran, due in fall 2012

Palos Heights, Il

Developed print, radio, television, and multimedia campaigns for suburban Chicago community college

London, Uk/Chicago, Il

Edited monthly journal for corporate communications professionals. Did research, interviews; wrote and edited articles. Presented on panel discussions and conferences.

Chicago, Il

Edited weekly newsletter for corporate communications professionals. Did research, interviews; wrote and edited articles. Presented on panel discussions and conferences.Edited "Bits & Pieces," a monthly motivational journal.

Chicago Heights, Il

Wrote press releases, brochures, advertisements, and other marketing pieces for the college. Worked with local media to promote college activities and accomplishments.

Ma, Creative Writing

Ba, Film Studies

Activities and Societies: Film Society

Continuing Education

Workshop classes in writing and editing at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Concentrations in storytelling, nonfiction, and editorial.

Continuing Education

Workshop classes in journalism and nonfiction writing

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Film/Cinema/Video Studies