Alice Glaser (December 3, 1928 — August 22, 1970) was an American writer and an editor at Esquire magazine.
Alice Glaser | |
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 Alice Glaser, 1950 | |
| Born | October 3, 1928 United States |
| Died | August 22, 1970 (aged 41) New York, United States |
| Occupation | Editor of Esquire |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
| Years active | 1950s-1960s |
| Spouse | Jean-Paul Surmain |
Early life
editAlice Glaser was raised on Long Island, the daughter of Hilda Glaser and Lewis Glaser.[1] She attended Woodmere High School, graduating in 1946. She completed her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe College in 1950, with a senior thesis on Joseph Conrad.[2]
Career
editFrom 1958, Glaser worked at Esquire magazine,[3] eventually as associate editor under Harold Hayes.[4] In that position, she was regularly in contact with prominent authors and potential authors, such as Martin Luther King Jr.[5] and Diane Arbus.[6] She also wrote articles for the magazine. One of her contributions in 1963, "Back on the Open Road for Boys", described the week she spent in India with Allen Ginsberg.[7] Other articles by Glaser included an interview with "the last of the Seneca chiefs" in 1964,[8] and "Hair!" (1965), an exploration of teen girls' beauty culture.[9]
She also wrote book reviews for the Chicago Tribune.[10] In 1961, her dystopian story "The Tunnel Ahead" was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[11] The story has been much anthologized and was adapted into the award-winning short film The Tunnel (Tunnelen, 2016) by André Øvredal.[2]
Personal life
editGlaser died in 1970 after a fall, possibly a suicide, at age 41, in New York.[7][1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Deaths". New York Times (August 23, 1970): 71. via ProQuest.
- ^ a b "Alice Glaser", The Future is Female! A Celebration of the Women Who Made Science Fiction Their Own, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. LeGuin (Library of America).
- ^ Roz Bernstein, "My Esquire" Guernica (June 3, 2013).
- ^ Frank di Giacomo, "The Esquire Decade". Vanity Fair (December 20, 2006).
- ^ Letter from Alice Glaser to MLK (June 26, 1963). Archived October 3, 2018, at the Wayback Machine; Digital Archive, King Center.
- ^ Patricia Bosworth, Diane Arbus: A Biography (W. W. Norton & Company 2005): 223. ISBN 9780393326611.
- ^ a b Carol Polsgrove, It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?: Surviving the '60s with Esquire's Harold Hayes (RDR Books 2001): 78, 259. ISBN 9781571430915.
- ^ Alice Glaser, "The Indian-Head Nickel: Some Words with Himself". Esquire (March 1, 1964).
- ^ Alice Glaser, "Hair!" Esquire (July 1, 1965).
- ^ Alice Glaser, "For The Man who Loathes Hamlet". Chicago Tribune (February 11, 1968): 181. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Alice Glaser, "The Tunnel Ahead". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1961): 54–61.
