Morrill Cody

Who was Morrill Cody?

Morrill Cody was an American diplomat, literary editor, and author. Cody served with the United States Foreign Service for more than two decades and was a former deputy director of the United States Information Agency from 1961 to 1963 under Edward R. Murrow. From 1965 to 1976 he managed the Paris bureau of Radio Free Europe.

The author of several books, he edited the 1937 book This Must be the Place: Memoirs of Montparnasse by James "Jimmie" Charters, the highly popular barman at the Dingo Bar in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris during the Années Folles in the 1920s.

Morrill Cody was born in Lake Forest, Illinois and died in a nursing home in Wheaton, Maryland after a lengthy illness. He graduated from Amherst College in 1921.

Books by Morrill Cody:

Passing Stranger

The Favorite Restaurants of an American in Paris

The Women of Montparnasse