

His father Barry was an accountant, while Glass’ mother, Shirley, worked as a psychologist. Glass was born in 1959, sandwiched between a pair of sisters, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. That, in turn, frosts the radio program with a kind of honesty and truthfulness, making the stories that much more embraceable.” “Glass’ voice, a bit whiny-sounding, inflecting at times like a teen’s, is terrifically idiosyncratic and chummy,” asserted Flo-rangela Davila in the Seattle Times, “and as a host he allows the stories to take hold of him. A decade later, the program made its television debut on the Showtime cable network but remained a staple of public radio and one of its highest-rated weekly broadcasts. I ra Glass is the host of the long-running This American Life radio program that has aired on public radio stations across the United States since 1997. studios, 1982-89 reporter for WBEZ-FM, Chicago, 1989-95 co-host of The Wild Room on WBEZ, 1990-95 creator, producer, writer, and host of This American Life, 1995- writer and television host of This American Life, Showtime, 2007- editor of the essay anthology, The New Kings of Non-Fiction, published by Riverhead Books, 2007. 1978, and audiotape editor, newscast writer, and producer at its Washington, D.C. N ational Public Radio, summer intern, c. Office-c/o Showtime Networks, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. Education: Earned undergraduate degree from Brown University, 1982.Īddresses: Home- New York, NY.

B orn March 3, 1959, in Baltimore, MD son of Barry (an accountant) and Shirley (a psychologist) Glass married Anaheed Alani (an editor), August, 2005.
