Alice Glaser

Alice Glaser (December 3, 1928 — August 22, 1970) was an American writer and an editor at Esquire magazine.

Alice Glaser
Alice Glaser, 1950
Born(1928-10-03)October 3, 1928
United States
DiedAugust 22, 1970(1970-08-22) (aged 41)
New York, United States
OccupationEditor of Esquire
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materRadcliffe College
Years active1950s-1960s
SpouseJean-Paul Surmain

Early life

Alice 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

From 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

Glaser died in 1970 after a fall, possibly a suicide, at age 41, in New York.[7][1]

References
  1. "Deaths" New York Times (August 23, 1970): 71. via ProQuest
  2. "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).
  3. Roz Bernstein, "My Esquire" Guernica (June 3, 2013).
  4. Frank di Giacomo, "The Esquire Decade" Vanity Fair (December 20, 2006).
  5. Letter from Alice Glaser to MLK (June 26, 1963) Archived October 3, 2018, at the Wayback Machine; Digital Archive, King Center.
  6. Patricia Bosworth, Diane Arbus: A Biography (W. W. Norton & Company 2005): 223. ISBN 9780393326611
  7. 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
  8. Alice Glaser, "The Indian-Head Nickel: Some Words with Himself" Esquire (March 1, 1964).
  9. Alice Glaser, "Hair!" Esquire (July 1, 1965).
  10. Alice Glaser, "For The Man who Loathes Hamlet" Chicago Tribune (February 11, 1968): 181. via Newspapers.com
  11. Alice Glaser, "The Tunnel Ahead" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1961): 54-61.
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