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.
Selected publications 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)
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