Stephen Glass

Stephen Glass

Stephen Randall Glass (born 1972) is a former U.S. journalist who came to prominence when it was uncovered he had fabricated a number of magazine articles in 1998. Over a three-year period as a young rising star at The New Republic (TNR) from 1995 to 1998, Glass fabricated quotations, sources, and even entire events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. Most of Glass's articles were of the entertaining and humorous type, some of them based entirely on fictional events. His career at TNR was dramatized in the film Shattered Glass, where Glass was portrayed by Hayden Christensen. Glass fictionalized his own story in The Fabulist, a 2003 novel whose protagonist is named "Stephen Aaron Glass". Glass holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and, since 2004, he has worked as a paralegal at the Beverly Hills law firm of Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley.