About Grace Glueck
Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for The New York Times from 1951 until the early 2010s. == Early life == Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked as a municipal bond salesman on Wall Street until the Great Depression and subsequently became an insurance broker; her mother, Mignon (Schwarz), was a housewife who wrote in community papers. Glueck was raised in Rockville Centre, where she attended high school. She then studied English at New York University, graduating in 1948. During her studies there, she was the editor of The Apprentice, the school's literary magazine. == Career == Glueck first joined The New York Times as a copy girl in 1951. After carrying out administrative assignments for two years, she became picture researcher with the Times Book Review for 11 years, having been dissuaded by a senior editor from becoming a reporter due to her sex. She was eventually given her own art column – "Art People" – in the Sunday paper by Lester Markel, who took notice after she found a Balthus image of a lolita to go with a review of Lolita in 1963.
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