Joseph Mark Glazner

Joseph Mark Glazner is an internationally acclaimed American-Canadian author of seven crime novels, written under his own name and his pen name, Joseph Louis, including the Shamus and Arthur Ellis nominated novel, Madelaine. Glazner's first memoir, Life After America, is about his adventures as a young American war resister and writer, who left the US for Canada as his personal protest against the Vietnam War, reinvented himself as a tabloid writer and journalist, and found a small place in history helping John Lennon kick-start his "War Is Over" campaign at the iconic Montreal Bed-In for Peace in 1969. Glazner was raised in rural Warrenville, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1967. In addition to writing crime novels and memoirs, he has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, futurist in a think tank, and communications adviser to corporations and governments in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas. He lives in Toronto, Canada.