Joanna McClelland Glass (born October 7, 1936 in
Saskatoon
Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Hig ...
,
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
) is a Canadian
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
.
She became an American citizen in 1962.
Plays
*1972 ''Canadian Gothic''
*1972 ''American Modern''
*1975 ''Artichoke''
*1980 ''To Grandmother's House We Go''
*1983 ''Play Memory''
*1989 ''Yesteryear''
*1993 ''If We Are Women''
*2004 ''
Trying''
*2008 ''Palmer Park''
*2010 ''Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily''
Novels
*1975 ''Reflections on a Mountain Summer'' (Knopf)
*1984 ''Woman Wanted'' (St. Martin's)
See also
*''
Woman Wanted
''Woman Wanted'' is a 1999 film directed by Kiefer Sutherland (later credited as Alan Smithee). It is based on a novel by Joanna Glass, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Sutherland, Holly Hunter, Michael Moriarty, and Sutherland's mother ...
'', film adapted from novel.
References
Further reading
*''The Oxford companion to Canadian literature'', 2nd ed., pp. 464–466
*''The Oxford companion to Canadian theatre'', pp. 234–235.
External links
Joanna Glass entry at The Canadian Encyclopedia
1936 births
Living people
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Saskatoon
Canadian emigrants to the United States
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
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