# Arthur Bloch

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{{Short description|American writer and humorist (born 1948)}}
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'''Arthur Bloch''' (born January 1,  1948) is an American writer, author of the ''Murphy's Law'' books.<ref name="Bishop">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0fRJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sYQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5302,3334435&dq=arthur-bloch&hl=en|title=It's the wrong law|last=Bishop|first=Jim|date=9 November 1977|work=[The Vindicator](/source/The_Vindicator)|page=39|accessdate=1 February 2011}}</ref> He has also written a self-help satire called ''Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking''.<ref name=Wishful>{{cite book |last=Bloch |first1= Arthur |title= Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking |publisher= [Ten Speed Press](/source/Ten_Speed_Press) |date= October 1, 2002 |isbn= 978-1580084406}}</ref> From 1986 to 2002 he was the producer and director of the ''Thinking Allowed'' [PBS](/source/Public_Broadcasting_Service) television series.<ref name=Thinking>{{cite web |url= https://www.thinkingallowed.com/about.html |title= About Thinking Allowed |work= Thinking Allowed Productions |access-date= February 27, 2025}}</ref>

The proper title of the book is ''Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!''. The word ''wrong'' is printed upside-down on the book's cover.<ref name=Book2>{{cite book |last=Bloch |first1= Arthur |title= Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! |publisher= [PSS Adult](/source/Price_Stern_Sloan) |date= January 24, 1980 |isbn= 978-0843106749}}</ref>  This was the first of many Murphy's Law books.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL239945A/Arthur_Bloch |title= Arthur Bloch |work= [Open Library](/source/Open_Library) | access-date= February 27, 2025}}</ref>

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