Ms. Arndt was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1959.
After years of marriage and raising two daughters, she went back to school where she received a B.A. degree from Montclair State University in New Jersey in 1996.
Her first attempt of writing was translating her brother's book "Feed My Sheep" from German into English.
In 2017 she published her memoir tilted "Growing Up under the Third Reich"--"The Caretaker's Tale" is her most recent book published in 2024. Ms. Arndt lives in Virginia with her daughter Corinna.