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.
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, Emmanuel Carrère, and Annie Proulx, who credited Glusman with encouraging her to write novels.
[4] From 1990 to 2004, Glusman worked at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, rising to the position of editor-in-chief and executive vice president.
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.