David Dodd
Financial analyst and educator
David Dodd was an American educator and financial analyst who studied and worked alongside Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School. His lecture notes grew into Security Analysis.
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American Born 1895 in Martinsburg, United States Died 1988
About David Dodd
David LeFevre Dodd (1895 to 1988) was born in Berkeley County, West Virginia. He worked as an educator, financial analyst, author, economist and investor. As a young instructor at Columbia, Dodd volunteered to take notes in Benjamin Graham's classes, since Graham would only teach if someone did so. Those notes became the basis for Security Analysis. The book appeared in 1934 and gave momentum to the idea of value investing. No other investment textbook has stayed in print as long.