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Lokacin da Arthur Frommers ya buga Turai akan Dala Biyar a Rana a 1957, ya fara balaguron balaguron balaguron balaguro na duniya da yawon buɗe ido, yana mai da yawan yawon buɗe ido araha.
Shekaru sittin bayan haka, mawallafin Arthur Frommer ya buga littattafan jagora fiye da 350 kuma ya sayar da kwafi miliyan 75.
'Yarsa, Pauline Frommer ta riga ta rubuta litattafai 130 kuma ta dauki nauyin rediyon da aka yi amfani da su: "The Travel Show."
An haifi Arthur Frommer a Lynchburg, Virginia, ranar 17 ga Yuli, 1929. Ya rasu a wannan makon a ranar 18 ga Nuwamba, yana da shekaru 95 a duniya.
Iyayensa sun kasance baƙi Yahudawa daga Poland da Ostiriya. Sun zauna a garin Jefferson, Missouri, kafin ya ƙaura zuwa birnin New York lokacin yana ɗan shekara 14. Ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Erasmus Hall a Brooklyn kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin ɗan ofis a Newsweek.
Arthur ya sami digiri na kimiyyar siyasa daga Jami'ar New York. A Makarantar Yale Law, daga inda ya sauke karatu a 1953, ya kasance editan Jaridar Yale Law.
Ya rubuta littafinsa na farko, na 1955 “Jagorar GI don Tafiya a Turai,” yayin da yake aiki a Berlin a sashin leken asirin Sojojin Amurka. Bayan ya koma New York, ya shiga kamfanin lauyoyi na Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, daya daga cikin kamfanonin "farar fata" na farko don hayar Yahudawa da Al'ummai.
Shekaru da yawa, littattafan jagora na Frommers sun ƙunshi kusan kashi 25% na duk jagororin tafiye-tafiye da aka sayar a Amurka.
A 1977, ya sayar da alama ga Simon & Schuster; a cikin 2013, ya sake siyan shi daga Google, wanda ya samo shi a shekarar da ta gabata.
A cikin 2004 raunchy matashi barkwanci "EuroTrip," wani ɗan wasan kwaikwayo da ke wasa Frommer ya sadu da gungun matasa matafiya waɗanda suka kasance suna amfani da jagorar Frommer a duk tsawon fim ɗin kuma suna ba da aiki ga mafi girman sadaukarwar littafin. Shekaru da yawa, masu kallon fina-finai suna tunanin hakan Halin Birtaniyya shi ne Frommer kansa. An ba Frommer cameo amma ya ƙi saboda tsarin buƙatun.
A cikin 2011, ya yi tafiya zuwa wurin haifuwar mahaifiyarsa na Lomza, Poland, inda ya gano dutsen kabarin kakansa kuma ya kara koyo game da rayuwar Yahudawa da ke can kafin Holocaust.
“Duk rayuwata, na ji labarai game da yadda Poland ta kasance da ban tsoro da kuma yadda dangina suka yi farin ciki da barin ta,” in ji shi. “Da yake can, kun ga daya bangaren. Suna da al'ummomi masu ban sha'awa, kyawawan haikali, da ƙauyuka masu albarka. A karon farko, na gane sun yi asarar wani abu ta hanyar barinsu.”
Ya rabu da Hope Arthur kuma ya bar matarsa ta biyu, Roberta Brodfeld, 'yarsa Pauline, 'ya'yansa Tracie Holder da Jill Holder, da jikoki hudu.
'Yarsa Pauline ta buga dagamers.com :
Yana da matukar bakin ciki na sanar da mahaifina, Arthur Frommer, wanda ya kafa Frommer's guidebooks da Frommers.com, ya rasu a yau yana da shekaru 95, a gida kuma ƙaunatattuna sun kewaye shi.
A cikin rayuwarsa mai ban mamaki, Arthur Frommer ya ba da tafiye-tafiye na dimokuradiyya, yana nuna matsakaicin Amurkawa yadda kowa zai iya samun damar yin balaguro kuma ya fi fahimtar duniya. Ya buga Turai na juyin juya hali akan Dala 5 a Rana, na farko a cikin jerin littafin jagora na Frommer da ke ci gaba da bugawa a yau.
Ya kasance ƙwararren marubuci, mai watsa shirye-shiryen talabijin da rediyo, kuma mai magana. A cikin 1997, shi ne editan da ya kafa Frommers.com, ɗaya daga cikin wuraren bayanan balaguro na dijital na farko a duniya.
