Stephen Glass

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Stephen Randall Glass
Born
Stephen Randall Glass

(1972-09-15) September 15, 1972 (age 52)
Highland Park, IL
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)
Occupation(s)Paralegal, writer
Years active1995–1998 (as journalist)
Spouse
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(m. 2014; died 2018)​

Stephen Randall Glass (born September 15, 1972)[1] is an American former journalist. He worked for The New Republic from 1995 to 1998 until it was revealed many of his published articles were fabrications. An internal investigation by The New Republic determined the majority of stories he wrote either contained false information or were fictitious.

Following the journalism scandal, Glass pursued a career in law. Although he earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and passed the bar exam in New York and California, he was unable to become a licensed attorney in either state over concerns derived from his scandal.[2] Glass instead found work as a paralegal at the law firm Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley, serving as the director of special projects and trial-team coordinator.[3]

Glass made a brief return to writing when he fictionalized his story in his 2003 novel The Fabulist.[4] The same year, the scandal was dramatized in the film Shattered Glass, which is based on a Vanity Fair article of the same name and stars Hayden Christensen as Glass.

  1. ^ U.S. birth records
  2. ^ Cantil-Sakauye, Tani; Kennard, Joyce L.; Baxter, Marvin R.; Werdegar, Kathryn; Chin, Ming; Corrigan, Carol A.; Mosk, Stanley (January 27, 2014), In Re Glass (PDF), Supreme Court of California
  3. ^ Zuckerman, Paul. "Stephen Glass". Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  4. ^ Glass, Stephen (2003). The Fabulist. Simon & Schuster. p. 234. ISBN 0-7432-2712-3.