Melinda C. Shepherd
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Melinda Shepherd received a B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also studied for two years as a postgraduate at the University of Toronto.
She became an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica in 1988 and served as a senior editor of Britannica Book of the Year from 2004 to 2016.
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Susannah York was a British actor who was initially cast as a blue-eyed blonde ingenue, but whose gamine beauty belied acting skills that came to the fore in such roles as the feisty Sophie Western, the object of the eponymous hero’s affections in Tom Jones (1963), and as Sir Thomas More’s…
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