Morrill Cody was an American

United States

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 diplomat

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, literary editor

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, and author

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. Cody served with the United States Foreign Service

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 for more than two decades and was a former deputy director of the United States Information Agency

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 from 1961 to 1963 under Edward R. Murrow

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. From 1965 to 1976 he managed the Paris

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 bureau of Radio Free Europe

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.

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

Dingo Bar

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 in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris during the Années Folles (the Crazy Years) in the 1920s.

Morrill Cody was born in Lake Forest, Illinois

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 and died in a nursing home

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 in Wheaton, Maryland

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 after a lengthy illness. He graduated from Amherst College

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 in 1921.

Books by Morrill Cody:

• Passing Stranger (1936)
• The Favorite Restaurants of an American in Paris (1966)
• The Women of Montparnasse (1984) (with Hugh Ford
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