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Leslie Glass is the is founder of Reach Out Recovery, a United States based nonprofit recovery organization. She is the author of 15 novels, a playwright, and journalist, philanthropist, and filmmaker.

Biography
Leslie Glass was raised in New York City. She studied music at Mannes College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied under Joseph Campbell and Grace Paley.

An active philanthropist, Glass has been involved with a variety of non-profit organizations. She has served as the president of Plays for Living, as the vice president of the Asolo Repertory Theatre, as a public member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education, Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation, as a board member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Sarasota Reading Festival.

Additionally, in 1990 she established the Leslie Glass Foundation, which provides fellowships at NYU, the CUNY Graduate Center, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the National Center for Victims of Crime, the New York City Police Foundation, The Asolo and the Ringling College of Art and Design. In 2011 Leslie Glass and her daughter Lindsey Glass Founded Reach Out Recovery: A nonprofit Education and Fundraising Organization Promoting Community Solutions for Recovery From Addiction.

Writing and film work
Glass is the author of fifteen novels, nine of which compose a New York Times Bestselling series. This sequence of novels center around an NYPD detective, April Woo. The first title in the series, Burning Time, was published in 1993 by Bantam Books, a Random House imprint.

Glass began her career in advertising, publishing, and at New York magazine, where she wrote the "Intelligencer" column. Her writing has been featured in Redbook and Cosmopolitan, and translated in six foreign languages. She also worked as a scriptwriter for the soap opera Guiding Light.

Her novel Over His Dead Body was produced for the stage by Robert Brustein under the name Strokes. This work, as well as the novels Getting Away With It, Modern Love, and the entirety of the April Woo series, have been optioned for feature films.

Glass produced and directed, The Secret World of Recovery a documentary in which the author and her screenwriter daughter, Lindsey, across the country searching for answers about recovery from addiction in America. The film was first showcased at Sarasota Film Festival on May 2014. The movie was released in 2014 wan was the winner of the 2016 American Society of Addiction Medicine Media Award. In 2013, Glass produced and directed The Silent Majority, a one-hour documentary that debunks the myth that most teens are involved in the partying culture. The Silent Majority showcases five unique programs of positive reinforcement inspire teens to think for themselves. Drug Free Youth of North Port changes a community in Florida; Teen Court of Sarasota County keeps young offenders out of jail; Watch Your BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) teaches alcohol education at the University of Tampa; Road Recovery uses rock stars and music industry professionals to mentor a band of teens in recovery; and Made By Me, the making of a commercial by teens for the national media campaign Above the Influence from Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. and The President’s Office Of Drug Control Policy. With music composed and performed by the Road Recovery band. The Silent Majority was selected as the closing night film and premiered at the Gasparilla Film Festival in 2013 and on PBS Station WEDU. In 2014 it was distributed to all PBS stations nationwide by American Public Television. Released in October 2016 for sale the documentary reveals that some 70% make healthy choices about drugs and alcohol.

Novels
April Woo Series
 * Burning Time (1993), Bantam Books
 * Hanging Time (1995), Bantam Books
 * Loving Time (1996), Bantam Books
 * Judging Time (1998), Signet Books
 * Stealing Time (1999), Signet Books
 * Tracking Time (2000), Signet Books
 * The Silent Bride (2002), Onyx
 * A Killing Gift (2003), Onyx
 * A Clean Kill (2005), Onyx

Other Works
 * Getting Away With It (1976), Doubleday Books
 * Modern Love (1983), St. Martin's Press
 * To Do No Harm (1992) Doubleday Books
 * Natural Suspect: A Collaborative Novel (2001), devised by William Bernhardt, Ballantine Books
 * Over His Dead Body: A Novel of Sweet Revenge (2003), Ballantine Books
 * For Love and Money: A Novel of Stocks and Robbers (2004), Ballantine Books
 * Sleeper (2010)

Short stories

 * High Stakes: Eight stories of Gambling and Crime (2003), Robert J. Randisi (Editor), Signet Books
 * The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase (2008), Michael Connelly (Editor), Little, Brown and Company

Plays

 * Strokes (1984)
 * The Survivors (1989)
 * On The Edge (1991)

Films

 * The Secret World Of Recovery 37 minute documentary (2014)
 * The Silent Majority 56 minute documentary