Who

Gluck is co-chief of the literary department at ubër-agency William Morris, along with Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

Backstory

The daughter of a vending machine manufacturing executive, Gluck attended Brown and worked as a researcher for New Yorker writer Ken Auletta after graduation. The connection paid off in 1984 when she joined ICM to work alongside Auletta's wife, Binky Urban. When Robert Gottlieb quit William Morris in 2001, Gluck was lured away from ICM and named co-head of William Morris's powerful literary department along with Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

Of note

Gluck has some big names on her client roster including Caleb Carr, John Berendt, Ann Coulter, and Kurt Andersen, who most recently inked a two-book deal with Random House for a novel and a book of nonfiction. Gluck secured a $1.8 million advance for first-time novelist Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder, and a $3 million advance for Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin's follow up to The Nanny Diaries. The latter, however, turned out to be a poisoned chalice: Random House cancelled the deal and rescinded the advance when the manuscript for Citizen Girl was delivered. Gluck then got the authors a new deal at Simon and Schuster's Atria imprint for a much less impressive $200,000.

Scandal

Gluck took the first submission from Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan, author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, then passed it to Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, who sold the book to Little, Brown. Turns out that Viswanathan was less of a child prodigy than she seemed: Big chunks of Opal Mehta had been plagiarized, and the book was yanked from stores in 2006.

Personal

Gluck married husband Thomas Dyja in 1990. Dyja, then an editor at Bantam, has since become a successful novelist: He penned Play for a Kingdom (about two baseball-playing Civil War regiments who take a break from fighting to play a few innings) as well as Meet John Trow and The Moon in Our Hands. Gluck and Dyja live on the Upper West Side.