Complex sentence: Sheldon Goldfarb (born 1953) is a Canadian author and independent scholar who grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where he worked for the McGill Daily student newspaper and obtained (1975) a bachelor of arts degree in history.
Split into simpler sentences: Sheldon Goldfarb (born 1953) is a Canadian author and independent scholar. Goldfarb grew up in Montreal, later attending McGill University, where he worked for the McGill Daily student newspaper and received a Bachelors degree of arts in history.