Leslie Glass (author)
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Leslie Glass is an American
novelist, playwright
, and journalist
.
. She studied music at Mannes College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College
where she studied under Joseph Campbell
and Grace Paley
.
An active philanthropist, Glass has been involved with a variety of non-profit organizations. She has served as the president of Plays for Living, as the vice president of the Asolo Repertory Theatre
, as a public member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education, and as a board member of the Mystery Writers of America
and the Sarasota Reading Festival.
Additionally, in 1990 she established the Leslie Glass Foundation, which provides fellowships at NYU, the CUNY Graduate Center
, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
, the National Center for Victims of Crime, the New York City Police Foundation
, and the Ringling College of Art and Design.
In 2011 Leslie Glass and her daughter Lindsey Glass Founded Reach Out Recovery: A nonprofit Education and Fundraising Organization Promoting Community Solutions for Recovery From Addiction.
series. This sequence of novels center around an NYPD detective, April Woo. The first title in the series, Burning Time, was published in 1993 by Bantam Books
, a Random House
imprint
.
Glass began her career in advertising, publishing, and at New York
magazine, where she wrote the "Intelligencer" column. Her writing has been featured in Redbook
and Cosmopolitan
, and translated in six foreign languages. She also worked as a scriptwriter for the soap opera
Guiding Light
.
Her novel Over His Dead Body was produced for the stage by Robert Brustein
under the name Strokes. This work, as well as the novels Getting Away With It, Modern Love, and the entirety of the April Woo series have been optioned for feature films.
Rehab Productions, a film company founded by Glass, presents The Secret World of Recovery a feature-length documentary: The author and her screenwriter daughter, Lindsey, cross the country searching for answers about recovery from addiction in America. Sarasota Film Festival May 2011. Release planned for 2012
Other Works
-- Films --
United States
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novelist, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
Biography
Leslie Glass was raised in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. She studied music at Mannes College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...
where she studied under Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...
and Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Grace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
.
An active philanthropist, Glass has been involved with a variety of non-profit organizations. She has served as the president of Plays for Living, as the vice president of the Asolo Repertory Theatre
Asolo Repertory Theatre
The Asolo Repertory Theatre or Asolo Rep is a professional theater in Sarasota, Florida. It is the largest Equity theatre in Florida, and the largest Repertory theatre in the Southeastern United States. Asolo Rep is a resident regional theatre company which also invites in guest artists...
, as a public member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education, and as a board member of the Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
and the Sarasota Reading Festival.
Additionally, in 1990 she established the Leslie Glass Foundation, which provides fellowships at NYU, the CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...
, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic...
, the National Center for Victims of Crime, the New York City Police Foundation
New York City Police Foundation
The New York City Police Foundation was established in 1971 by business and civic leaders as an independent, non-profit organization to strengthen the services of the New York City Police Department and to improve public safety in New York City....
, and the Ringling College of Art and Design.
In 2011 Leslie Glass and her daughter Lindsey Glass Founded Reach Out Recovery: A nonprofit Education and Fundraising Organization Promoting Community Solutions for Recovery From Addiction.
Writing and Film Work
Glass is the author of fifteen novels, nine of which compose a New York Times BestsellingNew York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication...
series. This sequence of novels center around an NYPD detective, April Woo. The first title in the series, Burning Time, was published in 1993 by Bantam Books
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
, a Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
.
Glass began her career in advertising, publishing, and at New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine, where she wrote the "Intelligencer" column. Her writing has been featured in Redbook
Redbook
Redbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. It is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.-History:...
and Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
, and translated in six foreign languages. She also worked as a scriptwriter for the soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Guiding Light
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
.
Her novel Over His Dead Body was produced for the stage by Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein
Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for...
under the name Strokes. This work, as well as the novels Getting Away With It, Modern Love, and the entirety of the April Woo series have been optioned for feature films.
Rehab Productions, a film company founded by Glass, presents The Secret World of Recovery a feature-length documentary: The author and her screenwriter daughter, Lindsey, cross the country searching for answers about recovery from addiction in America. Sarasota Film Festival May 2011. Release planned for 2012
Novels
April Woo Series- Burning Time (1993), Bantam BooksBantam BooksBantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
- Hanging Time (1995), Bantam BooksBantam BooksBantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
- Loving Time (1996), Bantam BooksBantam BooksBantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
- Judging Time (1998), Signet Books
- Stealing Time (1999), Signet Books
- Tracking Time (2000), Signet Books
- The Silent Bride (2002), Onyx
- A Killing Gift (2003), Onyx
- A Clean Kill (2005), Onyx
Other Works
- Getting Away With It (1976), Doubleday Books
- Modern Love (1983), St. Martin's PressSt. Martin's PressSt. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
- To Do No Harm (1992) Doubleday Books
- Natural Suspect: A Collaborative Novel (2001), devised by William BernhardtWilliam BernhardtWilliam Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his "Ben Kincaid" series of books.Bernhardt has sold more than 10 million books in several different countries throughout the world. He has twice won the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Fiction, in 1995 and 1999,...
, Ballantine BooksBallantine BooksBallantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a... - Over His Dead Body: A Novel of Sweet Revenge (2003), Ballantine BooksBallantine BooksBallantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a...
- For Love and Money: A Novel of Stocks and Robbers (2004), Ballantine BooksBallantine BooksBallantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a...
- Sleeper (2010)
Short Stories
- High Stakes: Eight stories of Gambling and Crime (2003), Robert J. Randisi (Editor), Signet Books
- The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase (2008), Michael ConnellyMichael ConnellyMichael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
(Editor), Little, Brown and CompanyLittle, Brown and CompanyLittle, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:...
Plays
- Strokes (1984)
- The Survivors (1989)
- On The Edge (1991)
-- Films --
- The Secret World Of Recovery Feature length documentary (2011)