Eugene Fodor - Litchfield, CT
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member neoc1
N 41° 44.943 W 073° 10.958
18T E 651103 N 4623510
The grave of travel writer Eugene Fodor is located in Section B of East Cemetery in Litchfield, CT.
Waymark Code: WM171FD
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
Views: 1

The grave of Eugene Fodor is marked by a small granite monument in Section B of East Cemetery. The monument is inscribed:

FODOR

VLASTA M.
EUGENE
ALICE
1922-1999
1905-1991
1909-1958

Eugene Fodor was born on October 14, 1905 in Léva, Hungary now called Levice in Slovakia. He studied political economics at the Sorbonne and the University of Grenoble in France.

Realizing that travel guides were generally boring he wrote his first travel guide On the Continent—The Entertaining Travel Annual which was published in 1936.

He moved to America and joined the US Army as a member of the Office of Strategic Services. It was revealed in 1972 that he operated as a US spy in Europe.

After WWII he established Fodor's, an English language travel and tourism publishing company and in 1949 Fodor's Modern Guides, Inc. was founded in Paris. He wrote guide books that went beyond a listing of hotels and sites they also contained practical information about the people and culture of a destination. He continued to write travel guides in America until Fodor sold his company in 1968.

Today Fodor's employs over 700 local writers and vacation experts offering guides to over 8,000 worldwide destinations.

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