29 Facts About Stephen Glass

Stephen Randall Glass was born on September 15,1972 and is a former American journalist.

Stephen Glass worked for The New Republic from 1995 to 1998 until an internal investigation by the magazine determined the majority of stories he wrote either contained false information or were fictitious.

Stephen Glass made a brief return to writing when he fictionalized his story in his 2003 novel The Fabulist.

Stephen Glass grew up in a Jewish family in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, and attended Highland Park High School.

Stephen Glass graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a University Scholar and was an executive editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.

In December 1996, the Center for Science in the Public Interest was the target of a hostile article by Stephen Glass titled "Hazardous to Your Mental Health".

Penenberg found that several other claims Stephen Glass made in the article appeared to be false: Stephen Glass claimed that law-enforcement officials in Nevada ran articles pleading with companies not to hire hackers, but Bob Harmon, Public Information Officer for the Nevada State Attorney General's Office, said no such ads ran.

Stephen Glass claimed that 21 states were considering a "Uniform Computer Security Act", which would "criminalize immunity deals between hackers and companies," but law enforcement officials and the National Conference of Commissions on Uniform State Laws were unaware of any such proposed legislation.

Lane had Stephen Glass take him to a Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland, where Stephen Glass had claimed the computer-hacker convention occurred.

Stephen Glass found that the hotel's layout did not match the story's description, the building in which the piece said the event took place had not been open on the supposed day of the conference, and the restaurant where the hackers supposedly had a dinner banquet afterwards closed in the mid afternoon.

We thought Stephen Glass was interested in our personal lives, or our struggles with work, and we thought it was because he cared.

The New Republic subsequently determined that at least 27 of the 41 articles Stephen Glass wrote for the magazine contained fabricated material.

George discovered that at least three of the stories Stephen Glass wrote for it contained fabrications.

Stephen Glass fabricated quotations in a profile piece and apologized to the article's subject, Vernon Jordan, an adviser to Bill Clinton when he was president.

Stephen Glass later wrote a letter admitting he fabricated the article he wrote for Harper's and the company retracted the story.

Stephen Glass had contributed a story to an October 1997 episode of the NPR program This American Life about an internship at George Washington's former plantation and another to a December 1997 episode about time he spent as a telephone psychic.

In 2003, Stephen Glass briefly returned to journalism, writing an article about Canadian marijuana laws for Rolling Stone.

On November 7,2003, Stephen Glass participated in a panel discussion on journalistic ethics at George Washington University, along with the editor who had hired him at The New Republic, Andrew Sullivan, who accused Stephen Glass of being a "serial liar" who was using "contrition as a career move".

In 2003, Stephen Glass published a fictionalized account of his time at the New Republic, the "biographical novel", The Fabulist.

Stephen Glass sat for an interview with the weekly news program 60 Minutes timed to coincide with the release of his book.

Stephen Glass has stated he has repaid $200,000 to The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper's and the publisher of Policy Review.

Stephen Glass then passed the New York State bar examination in 2000, but the Committee of Bar Examiners refused to certify him on its moral-fitness test, citing ethics concerns related to his journalistic malpractice.

Stephen Glass later abandoned his efforts to be admitted to the bar in New York.

Stephen Glass passed the California Bar Exam in 2006 or 2007.

In 2009, Stephen Glass applied to join the State Bar of California.

On January 3,2012, Stephen Glass's attorneys filed papers with the Court arguing that his behavior had been beyond reproach for more than 13 years and this was proof that he had reformed.

In 1998, Stephen Glass met lawyer Julie Hilden in connection with his legal issues.

Stephen Glass tended to her in their home in Venice, Los Angeles and hired a housekeeper and aides to stay with her while he was at work.

Many of the articles that Stephen Glass wrote for The New Republic are no longer available online.