Emily Morison Beck

Emily Morison Beck (October 15, 1915–March 28, 2004) was an editor known for editing Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.


Emily Morison Beck
Born
Emily Marshall Morison

(1915-10-15)October 15, 1915
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 28, 2004(2004-03-28) (aged 88)
Canton, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican

Biography

Emily Marshall Morison was born on October 15, 1915, in Boston, Massachusetts to the Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison and Elizabeth Greene Shaw. Beck was educated in the Dragon School in Oxford, as well as through Concord Academy in Massachusetts before attending Radcliffe College. Beck worked for a number of publishing houses before taking a position with the staff of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations at Little, Brown and Company. She was the editor for the editions which came out in 1955, 1968 and 1980. Beck also worked for Atlantic Monthly press.[1][2][3][4][5]

Personal life

Beck married the lawyer Brooks Beck in 1946 with whom she had three children. She died on March 28, 2004, in Canton, Massachusetts.[1]

Sources
  1. Martin, Douglas (31 March 2004). "Emily Morison Beck, 88, Dies; Edited Bartlett's Quotations". The New York Times.
  2. Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Yorkin Publications. 2007. ISBN 9780787676773.
  3. "Emily Morison Beck, 88". The Boston Globe.
  4. "Emily Morison Beck". The Times.
  5. "Emily Morison Beck, editora y 'arqueóloga literaria'". El País (in Spanish). 4 April 2004.
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