Leslie Glass

Leslie Glass is an American author, playwright, journalist, philanthropist, and filmmaker. Along with her daughter, she founded Reach Out Recovery, a United States-based nonprofit addiction recovery organization.[1][2]

Leslie Glass
Born (1945-04-19) April 19, 1945
OccupationAuthor, producer/director, recovery advocate,
NationalityAmerican
GenreSuspense, fiction, mystery, comedy, nonfiction, documentary
Notable worksApril Woo Suspense Novels,
The Secret World of Recovery,
The Silent Majority
Website
authorleslieglass.com

Writing and film work

Glass is the author of fifteen novels, nine of which compose a New York Times Bestselling series. This sequence of novels center around an NYPD detective, April Woo, the first Asian-American female detective in American mainstream fiction. The first title in the series, Burning Time, was published in 1993 by Bantam Books, a Random House imprint.[3]

Glass began her career in advertising and publishing at New York magazine, where she wrote the "Intelligencer" column. Her writing has been featured in Redbook and Cosmopolitan and translated into six foreign languages.[4] 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 at the American Repertory Theater. This work, the novels Getting Away with It, Modern Love, and the entirety of the April Woo series have been optioned for feature films.

Glass produced and directed The Secret World of Recovery. The film was first showcased at Sarasota Film Festival on May 2014. The movie was released in 2014 and was the winner of the 2016 American Society of Addiction Medicine Media Award. In 2013, Glass produced and directed The Silent Majority.

Reach Out Recovery

In 2011 Leslie Glass and her daughter, social worker Lindsey Glass,[5] founded Reach Out Recovery,[6] a nonprofit organization promoting community solutions for recovery from addiction.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

April Woo Series
  • Burning Time (1993), Bantam Books
  • Hanging Time (1995), Bantam Books
  • Loving Time (1996), Bantam Books
  • 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

Short stories

Plays
  • Strokes (1984)
  • The Survivors (1989)
  • On The Edge (1991)

Films
  • The Secret World of Recovery documentary (2012)
  • The Silent Majority documentary (2013)
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References
  1. Seidman, Carrie. "Sunday Profile:Author becomes reluctant crusader". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
  2. Andreeva, Neelie. "CBS Developing Cop Drama Based On Leslie Glass' April Woo Book Series". Deadline.
  3. Clark, Maggie. "Film on Drug Recovery Earns Media Award". Questia.
  4. White, Claire E., A Conversation With Leslie Glass, The Internet Writing Journal. March 2001. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. Hunter, Lasheika. "Stop the Mess! How to Avoid Social Media Drama in Love". Ebony.
  6. Reach Out Recovery website "About Us" page
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