Beck, Emily Morison (1915–2004)
Beck, Emily Morison (1915–2004)
American book editor. Born Emily Marshall Morison, Oct 15, 1915, in Boston, Massachusetts; died at home, Mar 28, 2004, in Canton, MA; dau. of Samuel Eliot Morison (Harvard historian) and Elizabeth Greene Shaw; attended Dragon School in Oxford, England, Concord Academy in Massachusetts, and Radcliffe; m. Brooks Beck (lawyer), 1946 (died 1969); children: Cameron, Gordon and Emily M. Beck.
Began career as an editor for Harper & Brothers, then Knopf; moved to Boston and became an editor at Atlantic Monthly Press; at same time, joined editorial staff of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations at Little, Brown (1952), serving as editor for 13th, 14th, and 15th editions (1955, 1968, 1980); continued working for Atlantic Monthly press until 1975.
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