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| name = John Glusman | image = | occupation = Editor | notableworks= Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 }}John A. Glusman is vice president and editor-in-chief of 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] EducationGlusman 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] CareerJohn A. Glusman began his publishing career at Random House in 1980, where he became managing editor of The Modern Library and an associate editor of Vintage Books and the Random House imprint. From 1984-86 he served as editor-in-chief of Washington Square Press, where he published Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard and Graham Swift in paperback. In 1986 he moved to Macmillan, where he launched the Collier Fiction series, the Best American Poetry annual, and published the early work of Jim Crace, John Banville, William T. Vollmann, Emmauel Carrère, and Annie Proulx, who credited Glusman with encouraging her to write novels. From 1990-2004 Glusman worked at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, rising to the position of editor-in-chief and executive vice president. There his authors included Nobel Prize winners Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Czeslaw Milosz, Pulitzer Prize winners Laurie Garrett and David Rohde, National Book Award winner Richard Powers, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Jim Crace, New York Times bestselling authors Rosellen Brown and Gina Kolata, in addition to Orhan Pamuk, Paul Bowles, Peter Handke, Josef Skvorecky, Rose Tremain and Peter Cameron. In 2004 he was named vice president and executive editor of Harmony Books at the Crown Publishing Group, where his authors included New York Times bestselling authors Erik Larson, David Sanger, Ben Macintyre and Alice Hoffman. At W.W. Norton & Company, his authors include Frans de Waal, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ronan Farrow, David Rohde, William Taubman, Thomas Chatterton Williams, James M. Scott, John Lahr, Richard Powers, and Robert Coover. Glusman has taught at the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, the Columbia Publishing Course and the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference. He has written for The New Leader, Dissent, Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, The Economist, Gourmet and Travel + Leisure. As a member of Helsinki Watch in the 1980s he wrote on human rights issues for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Spin, The Paris Review, and in association with Human Rights in China he published Children of the Dragon, the first documentary history of the Tiananmen Square massacre. 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 Viking Press in 2004 and Penguin Press in 2005. The historian John Dower praised it as "an intimate and meticulous account of cruelty, courage, and extraordinary human resilience." Advocate for E-booksIn 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.[4] AwardsIn 2009, Glusman received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his non-fiction writing.[5] Conduct Under Fire won the Colby Award in 2007 for the best book of military non-fiction by a first-time author.[5][6]Personal lifeHe lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his wife, Emily Bestler, and children.[5] References1. ^{{cite web|last1=John A.|first1=Gusman|title=The Author|url=http://www.conductunderfire.com/johnaglusman.htm|website=Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945|accessdate=3 June 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Deahl |first=Rachel |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/47830-john-glusman-takes-top-editorial-post-at-norton.html |title=John Glusman Takes Top Editorial Post at Norton |publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date=2011-06-30 |accessdate=2014-06-04}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16487-john-a-glusman |title=John A. Glusman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |date= |accessdate=2014-07-08}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2012/08/03/the-bears-and-bulls-of-publishing-an-insider-steps-up/#sthash.yWi5Rk92.dpuf |title=The Book Deal: A Publishing Blog for Writers and Book People » Blog Archive » The bears and bulls of publishing: An insider steps up |publisher=Alanrinzler.com |date= |accessdate=2014-06-04}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16487-john-a-glusman |title=John A. Glusman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |date= |accessdate=2014-06-04}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Winner+of+the+Colby+Award+announced.-a0159548995 |title=Winner of the Colby Award announced. - Free Online Library |publisher=Thefreelibrary.com |date=2007-02-20 |accessdate=2014-06-04}} External links
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