Tereze (Tessy) Glück

Obituary

GLUCK--Tereze. On December 16, 2018. An indelible presence, with a genius for pleasure, insatiable in her love of the world. Vice President of Citibank for over thirty years, the whole of her working life, she was also a fiction writer whose collection of short stories, "May You Live In Interesting Times," won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, a jeweler, an artisan, a collector of rare Hermes scarves, a brilliant and funny conversationalist, and a frequent contributor to this newspaper's Op Ed page. She leaves an unfillable void in the lives of her daughter, actress Abigail Savage, her daughter-in-law, Caitlin McElroy, her granddaughter Vera, and her sister, poet Louise Gluck, as well as in the lives of friends too numerous to name. As she was dying her room was so filled with those friends the desk clerks were puzzled; finally one asked if the woman in room 731 was a priest because so many people were asking to see her. No, said the new arrival. But she was someone widely and deeply loved.

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References

• Beinecke Library Tereze Glück Papers—a small collection of journals, manuscripts, little magazines, and correspon- dence. Tereze Glück was known as a vice president at Citibank, but she also wrote “May You Live in Interesting Times,” which won the 1994 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Tereze was the sister of former U.S. Poet Laureate and Yale Rosenkranz Writer- in-Residence Louise Glück; the papers include hundreds of letters to Tereze from Louise and other members of the Glück family. Gift of Abigail Savage.