Stephen Glass
| Stephen Glass | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Stephen Randall Glass September 15, 1972 United States |
| Alma mater |
University of Pennsylvania Georgetown University Law Center |
| Occupation | Paralegal, writer |
Stephen Randall Glass (born September 15, 1972) is an American paralegal and former journalist. In 1998, it was revealed that many of his published articles were fabrications. Over a three-year period as a young rising star at The New Republic, Glass invented quotations, sources, and events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. Most of Glass's articles were of the entertaining and humorous type; some were based entirely on fictional events. Several seemed to endorse negative stereotypes about ethnic and political groups.
Glass holds a degree in law from Georgetown University Law Center, and, since 2004, has worked as a paralegal at a Beverly Hills law firm. While Glass has passed the bar exam in both New York and California, he withdrew his application to become a licensed attorney in New York in 2004 after he was advised it would not succeed, and in 2014 the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he should not be licensed in that state.
His career at The New Republic was dramatized in the 2003 film Shattered Glass, in which Glass was portrayed by Hayden Christensen. Glass fictionalized his own story in The Fabulist, a 2003 novel whose protagonist is named "Stephen Aaron Glass".
Glass grew up in a Jewish family in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1994, where he was an executive editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and was a classmate of controversial journalist Sabrina Erdely, who would later write about knowing him. His tenure coincided with a spectacular incident that befell the newspaper: an entire edition was stolen by students who objected to the newspaper's coverage and the comments of its columnists. In addition, the contentious Water buffalo incident occurred during his tenure, bringing national attention to Penn campus events.
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