John Kennedy Melling
Appearance
John Kennedy Melling (11 January 1927 – 10 October 2018) was a British accountant, writer and broadcaster on theatre.
Melling built a large collection of theatre ephemera and was a drama critic for The Stage for 30 years.[1][2]
Selected publications
[edit]- Southend Playhouses from 1793 (1969)
- Discovering Lost Theatres (1969)
- Discovering London's Guilds and Liveries (1973)
- Discovering Theatre Ephemera (1974)
- Murder Done to Death: Parody and Pastiche in Detective Fiction (1996)
References
[edit]- ^ "John Kennedy Melling obituary". The Times. 4 December 2018. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Hitchcock's man in Essex". Echo. 4 May 2012.