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Leslie Glass
Born (1945-04-19) April 19, 1945 (age 79)
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

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]

The organization was inspired by Glass's own journey in the recovery world, when about 18 years ago her daughter struggled with substance use in her late teens and early 20s.[3][4] The lack of resources and support motivated the mother and daughter to provide help for other families facing the same issues.

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.[5]

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.[6] 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 in 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

Reach Out Recovery
Company typePrivate
IndustryNonprofit organization
FoundedMarch 1, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-03-01)
FounderLeslie Glass
Headquarters
Sarasota, Florida
,
United Sates
Websitewww.reachoutrecovery.com

In 2011 Leslie Glass and her daughter, social worker Lindsey Glass,[7] founded Reach Out Recovery,[8] a nonprofit organization promoting community solutions for recovery from addiction in Sarasota, Florida.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

April Woo Series

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)

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ "You're Sober and Want to be a Counselor: Now What?". Psych Central.
  4. ^ "5 Tips for College students to recovery after a disaster or other trauma - World leading higher education information and services". World.edu. 1 October 2016.
  5. ^ Clark, Maggie. "Film on Drug Recovery Earns Media Award".[dead link]
  6. ^ White, Claire E., A Conversation With Leslie Glass, The Internet Writing Journal. March 2001. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. ^ Hunter, Lasheika. "Stop the Mess! How to Avoid Social Media Drama in Love". Ebony.
  8. ^ Reach Out Recovery website "About Us" page
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