John Glusman

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John Glusman
OccupationEditor
EducationColumbia University (BA, MA)
Notable worksConduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945

John A. Glusman is vice president and executive editor at

W. W. Norton and Company, the largest independent, employee-owned publisher in the United States, and the author of Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945.[1][2]

Education

Glusman received his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia College in 1978, and his M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University in 1980.[3]

Career

John A. Glusman began his publishing career at

Best American Poetry annual, and published the early work of Jim Crace, John Banville, William T. Vollmann, Emmanuel Carrère, and Annie Proulx, who credited Glusman with encouraging her to write novels.[4]

From 1990 to 2004, Glusman worked at

New York Times bestselling authors Erik Larson, David Sanger, Ben Macintyre, and Alice Hoffman.[5]

From 2011 until 2023 Glusman was vice president and editor-in-chief of Norton. His authors include

David Rohde, and William Taubman, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Saidiya Hartman, National Book Critics Circle Award winner John Lahr, Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature winner Benjamin Balint,[6] Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner William Souder, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Glenn Loury, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Margaret Burnham
.

Glusman has taught at the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University, the

Tiananmen Square massacre.[7]

His book Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, based on his father's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in the Philippines and Japan, was published by

Penguin Press in 2005. The historian John Dower praised it as "an intimate and meticulous account of cruelty, courage, and extraordinary human resilience."[8]

In June 2019, he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for his contribution to publishing.[9]

Advocate for E-books

In an interview for The Book Deal, Glusman stated that "Ebook readers buy more books than those who buy traditional books." He believes that ebooks will help publishers in the long term and that it is the role of publishers to provide books across all formats.[10]

Awards

In 2009, Glusman received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his non-fiction writing.[11] Conduct Under Fire won the Colby Award in 2007 for the best book of military non-fiction by a first-time author.[11][12]

Personal life

He lives in Bedford, New York with his wife, Emily Bestler, Editorial Director of

Emily Bestler Books
at Atria/Simon & Schuster, with whom he has three adult children.

References

  1. ^ John A., Gusman. "The Author". Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. ^ Deahl, Rachel (2011-06-30). "John Glusman Takes Top Editorial Post at Norton". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  3. ^ "John A. Glusman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  4. ^ "At Home With: E. Annie Proulx; At Midlife, a Novelist Is Born". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  5. ^ "Bookview, February 2006". Publishing Trends. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  6. ^ "Benjamin Balint wins 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Kafka book". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  7. ^ "Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  8. ^ "Conduct Under Fire - Reviews". Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  9. ^ "2019 GSAS Alumni Awardees Announced". gsas.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  10. ^ "The Book Deal: A Publishing Blog for Writers and Book People » Blog Archive » The bears and bulls of publishing: An insider steps up". Alanrinzler.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  11. ^ a b "John A. Glusman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  12. ^ "Winner of the Colby Award announced. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2014-06-04.

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