Frank Chodorov is an American writer, whose writings have been published in numerous newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post. He has also written extensively for the periodicals Human Events, National Review, and Reader's Digest.
Chodorov was born in Brooklyn in 1913 into a family of Russian Jews who had fled to America shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. He attended New York Institute of Technology for two years before enrolling at City College of New York where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934. He later graduated with honors from Columbia Law School where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review
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During his time at Columbia he also wrote for the student daily newspaper, the "Columbia Spectator".
During World War II Chodorov served as an infantry private in Europe. After the war ended he returned to school at Columbia University where he earned his law degree in 1948 and worked as a lawyer until 1951 when he left to become an editor at "The American Mercury" magazine.
He later became one of America's most prominent libertarian writers by publishing many books on this subject.
His last book was "How Would You Like To Be Free?", published posthumously in 1999