User:Robert Gleason

Robert H. Gleason was born in Michigan City, Indiana. He has an AB in English literature from Indiana University, a master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and he attended the Sorbonne, all of which were financed by seven hellish years in the Gary steel mills. He has worked in New York book publishing as an acquisitions editor pretty much forever. When he began, he says, he and his colleagues “chiseled books on the walls of caves.”  He has worked for Simon & Schuster-Pocket Books, Playboy Press and for the last 30 years at Tor/Forge Books, where he is executive editor. He has also published over a dozen novels on his own. In 1995 New York City named a day after Robert Gleason for the work he’d done for prison literacy—which included editing and publishing a sizable number of inmates and ex-offenders as well as speaking in many, many prisons. He had a starring role in the History Channel’s two-hour special, PROPHETS OF DOOM. His website is www.RobertGleasonBooks.Com.