Author of 340 travel guides still appreciates his Mid-Missouri roots

Arthur Frommer thought Jefferson City was the Athens of America when he lived here as a boy in the 1930s and '40s.

Now the publisher of more than 340 travel guides a year to destinations across the globe, Frommer lives in New York City, but still appreciates his Mid-Missouri roots.

Frommer is the son of European and Asian immigrants who received their citizenship in Jefferson City. When his father was transferred from ....

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