Susan Glasser

Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist. She writes the online column "Letter from Trump's Washington" in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer.

She is the author, with her husband Peter Baker, of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (2005), The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (2020), and The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (2022).

Early life and education Glasser is the daughter of Lynn (née Schreiber) and Stephen Glasser. She is of Jewish descent. Her parents are the founders of a weekly legal newspaper, Legal Times, and a legal and business publishing company, Glasser Legal Works. Her grandfather, Melvin Glasser, supervised the field trials for the polio vaccine.

She was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School, before transferring to Phillips Academy after her sophomore year. Glasser graduated cum laude from Harvard University,

Career Glasser interned, and later worked for eight years, at Roll Call. Glasser then joined Politico and served as editor during the 2016 election cycle.

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Personal life In September 2000, Glasser married Peter Baker in a civil ceremony. Baker and Glasser live in Washington.

Their son, Theo Baker, became the youngest person to win a Polk Award in 2023 for reporting that led to the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the then president of Stanford University, who had published research articles that contained manipulated images.