For the artist and painter, see Ari Glass. For the former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, see Ira Glasser.
Ira Glass
Glass in 2013
Born
Ira Jeffrey Glass[1]
(1959-03-03) March 3, 1959 (age 65)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Education
Northwestern University Brown University (BA)
Occupations
Radio personality
producer
writer
Years active
1978–present
Spouse
Anaheed Alani
(m. 2005; div. 2018)
Website
thisamericanlife.org
Ira Jeffrey Glass (/ˈaɪrə/; born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series This American Life and has participated in other NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. His work in radio and television has won him awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio and the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting.
Originally from Baltimore, Glass began working in radio as a teenager. While attending Brown University, he worked alongside Keith Talbot at NPR during his summer breaks. He worked as a story editor and interviewer for years before he began to cover his own stories in his late twenties. After he moved to Chicago, he continued to work on the public radio programs All Things Considered and The Wild Room, the latter of which he co-hosted. After Glass received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he and Torey Malatia developed This American Life, which won a Peabody Award within its first six months and became nationally syndicated a year later. The show was formulated into a television program of the same name on Showtime that ran for two seasons. Glass also performs a live show, and has contributed to or written articles, books, and a comic book related to the radio show.
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