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Stephen Birnbaum (c. 1937 – December 20, 1991) was an American writer, journalist and commentator best known for travel commentary and guide books. In addition to print media, he worked in television and radio, including appearances on three major U.S. commercial broadcast networks. ==Career== Birnbaum worked as a managing editor for Fodor's travel guides, and later created his own series of guide books, the Birnbaum Travel Guides, which up to the time of his death had encompassed 36 books.〔 Books in the series were published by HarperCollins or the Houghton Mifflin Company. For more than 14 years, he provided travel commentary on the CBS Radio Network, working at flagship station WCBS (AM), in New York. Before that, he had been a guest on ABC's ''Good Morning America'', the ''CBS Morning News'' and NBC's ''Today'' show, and had been travel editor for the syndicated ''Independent Network News'' program.〔 He wrote articles for numerous magazines, including ''Good Housekeeping'', ''Esquire'' and ''Playboy''. At the time of his death, he was ''Good Housekeepings travel editor, and the author of a twice-weekly travel column that was syndicated by Tribune Media Services and published in several U.S. newspapers. In 1976, he became a co-owner of the then three-year-old ''Diversion'' magazine (ISSN 0363-4825), a now-defunct, monthly travel and leisure magazine for physicians. The magazine was sold to Hearst Corporation in 1984, but Birnbaum remained its editorial director until his death.〔 He edited ''The Best of Walt Disney World'', that theme park's official guide book,〔Wade, Betsy (December 27, 1987). "Experienced mother meticulously plots 2nd trip to Disney World". ''The Sunday Oregonian'' (Portland, Oregon), p. S5. New York Times News Service.〕 as well as the official guide for Disneyland.〔 In the 1980s, he also sold audio-tape walking tours, but found sales of tapes to be relatively slow compared with his books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Birnbaum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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