Emily Morison Beck

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]}

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