Elliott Arnold was an American

United States

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 newspaper

Newspaper

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 feature writer

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, novel

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ist, and screenwriter

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He was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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 and became a feature writer with the New York World-Telegram

New York World-Telegram

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. Among his books, Elliott Arnold is probably best known for his novel Blood Brother that was made into the acclaimed 1950 motion picture Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow (1950 film)

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and an ensuing 1956 television series of the same name

Broken Arrow (TV series)

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. Among his other works, his 1949 biography of Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg

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 was made into the 1954 musical film

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, Deep in My Heart.

Elliott Arnold died in New York City

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in 1980 at the age of sixty-seven.

List of published books

• Two Loves (1934)
• Personal Combat (1936)
• Only The Young (1939)
• Nose for News; The Way of Life of a Reporter (1941)
• Finlandia! The Story of Sibelius (1941)
• Commandos: A Novel (1942)
• First Comes Courage (1943)
• Tomorrow Will Sing (1945)
• Blood Brother (1947)
• Everybody Slept Here (1948)
• Deep In My Heart, a Story Based on the Life of Sigmund Romberg (1949)
• Walk With the Devil (1950)
• Broken Arrow (1954)
• White Falcon (1955)
• Rescue! (1956)
• Flight from Ashiya (1959)
• Brave Jimmy Stone (1962)
• A Night of Watching (1967)
• Kind of Secret Weapon (1969) -- A young, Danish boy forced to face the fierce German soldiers that infest his home. Danger is within his every step when he learns that his parents run an underground newspaper.
• Code of Conduct: A Novel (1970)
• Forests of the Night (1971)
• Spirit of Cochise (1972)
• Proving Ground: A Novel (1973)
• Camp Ground Massacre: A Novel (1976)
• Quicksand: A Novel of the City (1977)