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{{short description|Canadian playwright (born 1936)}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Joanna Glass
| birth_name         = Joan Ruth McClelland
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1936|10|07}}
| birth_place        = [[Saskatoon]], [[Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]]
| citizenship        = [[United States of America]]
| notable_works      = Artichoke (1975)<br />Woman Wanted (1984)<br />Trying (2004)
| spouse             = Alexander Glass (married 1959–1976)
| children           = 3
}}
'''Joanna McClelland Glass''' (born October 7, 1936) is a Canadian [[playwright]].<ref name="nothof2009">{{Cite encyclopedia|first=Anne|last=Nothof|title=Glass, Joanna McClelland|url=http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Glass%2C%20Joanna%20McClelland|encyclopedia=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia|publisher=[[Athabasca University]]|date=2009-04-02|accessdate=2009-06-27}}</ref> She was born in [[Saskatoon]], [[Saskatchewan]], and became an American citizen in 1962.<ref name="nothof2009" /> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Nothof |first=Anne |date=October 31, 2011 |title=Joanna Glass |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joanna-glass |access-date=March 4, 2024 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref> She was born as Joan Ruth McClelland.<ref name=":0" /> She was involved with theatre during high school.<ref name=":0" /> She moved to Calgary to work in a radio station.<ref name=":0" />

==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 (play)|Trying]]''
*2008, ''Palmer Park''<ref name="nothof2009" />
*2010, ''Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily''

==Novels==
*1975, ''Reflections on a Mountain Summer'' (Knopf)
*1984, ''Woman Wanted'' (St. Martin's)<ref name="nothof2009" />

==See also==
*''[[Woman Wanted]]'', film adapted from novel.<ref name="nothof2009" />

==References==
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==Further reading==
*''The Oxford companion to Canadian literature'', 2nd ed., pp.&nbsp;464–466
*''The Oxford companion to Canadian theatre'', pp.&nbsp;234–235.

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607114113/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009769 Joanna Glass entry at ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'']

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[[Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian women writers]]


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