Alice Glaser (October 3, 1928 — August 22, 1970) was an American writer and an editor at Esquire magazine.
Early life Alice Glaser was raised on Long Island, the daughter of Hilda Glaser and Lewis Glaser."Deaths". New York Times (August 23, 1970): 71. 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."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).
Career From 1958, Glaser worked at Esquire magazine,Roz Bernstein, "My Esquire" Guernica (June 3, 2013). eventually as associate editor under Harold Hayes.Frank di Giacomo, "The Esquire Decade". Vanity Fair (December 20, 2006). In that position, she was regularly in contact with prominent authors and potential authors, such as Martin Luther King Jr.Letter from Alice Glaser to MLK (June 26, 1963). ; Digital Archive, King Center. and Diane Arbus.Patricia Bosworth, Diane Arbus: A Biography (W. W. Norton & Company 2005): 223. . 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.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. . Other articles by Glaser included an interview with "the last of the Seneca chiefs" in 1964,Alice Glaser, "The Indian-Head Nickel: Some Words with Himself". Esquire (March 1, 1964). and "Hair!" (1965), an exploration of teen girls' beauty culture.Alice Glaser, "Hair!" Esquire (July 1, 1965).
She also wrote book reviews for the Chicago Tribune.Alice Glaser, "For The Man who Loathes Hamlet". Chicago Tribune (February 11, 1968): 181. via Newspapers.com In 1961, her dystopian story "The Tunnel Ahead" was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.Alice Glaser, "The Tunnel Ahead". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1961): 54–61. The story has been much anthologized and was adapted into the award-winning short film The Tunnel (Tunnelen, 2016) by André Øvredal.
Personal life Glaser died in 1970 after a fall, possibly a suicide, at age 41, in New York.
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