Joanna Glass Explained

Joanna Glass
Birth Name:	Joan Ruth McClelland
Birth Date:	7 October 1936
Birth Place:	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Citizenship:	United States of America
Notable Works:	Artichoke (1975) Woman Wanted (1984) Trying (2004)
Spouse:	Alexander Glass (married 1959–1976)
Children:	3

Joanna McClelland Glass (born October 7, 1936) is a Canadian playwright.^[1] She was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and became an American citizen in 1962. She has aided in the expansion of Canadian Theatre from 1970 to the present.

Life

Glass was born on October 7, 1936, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.^[2] She was born as Joan Ruth McClelland. She was involved with theatre during high school. She moved to Calgary to work in a radio station.

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, film adapted from novel.

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

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Anne. Nothof. Glass, Joanna McClelland. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Athabasca University. 2009-04-02. 2009-06-27.
2. Web site: Nothof . Anne . October 31, 2011 . Joanna Glass . March 4, 2024 . The Canadian Encyclopedia.