John Glad
John Glad (December 31, 1941 – December 4, 2015) was an American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature; he has written about Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust.
Biography
John Glad was born in Illinois in a family of immigrants from Croatia. His surname in Croatian means "hunger". "I am Ivan Hunger", he used to tell his Russian colleagues.
At age of 20 he began studying Russian and spoke it fluently, to which undoubtedly contributed his marriage to Larisa, nee Romanova, whom he brought from Saratov. He was known as a very good interpreter, and as such he was invited to interpete speeches of high-ranking people from Russia, including Mikhail Gorbachev.
Glad received his MA from Indiana University in 1964 for his thesis "Constance Garnett and David Magarshack as translators of Crime and punishment.", and his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1970 for this thesis "Russian Soviet science fiction and related critical activity".