Joseph Mark GlaznerJoseph Mark Glazner is the 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 Madelaine (Bantam Books, NYC, 1987). Life Ater America, his first memoir, is a personal and optimistic tale of life as a young writer and one of the first American resisters to go to Canada in the 1960s to protest the Vietnam War. Never a formal member of any anti-war group, Glazner's quest to think for himself and draw his own conclusions will resonate with many today in an increasingly dangerous and polarized world. His unusual, darkly humorous, coming-of-age tale brings to life the joy and pitfalls of falling in love in an era of sexual revolution, surviving in the big city while hunting for his first big break, and finding redemption helping John Lennon kick-start Lennon's and Yoko Ono's iconic WAR IS OVER campaign. Glazner's eighth crime novel, MurderLand, his first in thirty years, is expected to be published in 2017. In addition to crime writing and memoirs, Glazner has written for the movies (The Shape of Things to Come, 1979), run a think tank, and worked as a journalist, editor, and ghost writer for a variety of newspapers and periodicals, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Sunday Express, Telesis, Omni, Cavalier, The Five Cent Review, Executive, and the notorious Montreal tabloid Midnight (now the Globe). For many years, he also worked as an independent communications adviser, forecaster, and speechwriter for senior executives in governments and corporations in Canada and the US in telecommunications, banking, and many other fields. Glazner is a graduate of the University of Southern California (BA-psychology, magna cum laude, 1967) and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His formative years were spent in rural New Jersey. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He is busy finishing War Baby, his second memoir and the prequel to Life After America. About the early years of the counterculture in California (1963-1967), it includes his experiences during the Watts Riots, crisscrossing America by car and thumb, attending the world's first Love-In, and serendipitous encounters with iconic figures of the era-from poet and anti-war activist Allen Ginsberg and actress Edie Sedgwick to editor/publisher of The Realist Paul Krassner, Beatles insider Derek Taylor, and movie mogul Sam Arkoff. Read More Read Less