Ira Glass

Biography

Ira Jeffrey Glass is a renowned American public radio personality and host of This American Life. Born on March 3, 1959, in Baltimore, he began his radio career as a teenager and worked alongside Keith Talbot at NPR during his summer breaks while attending Brown University. He developed this American Life with Torey Malatia after receiving a MacArthur grant, which won a Peabody Award within its first six months of broadcast.