religion birth_place name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
jewish united states stephen glass 15 september 1972 stephen glass
 stephen randall glass paralegal , writer university of pennsylvania georgetown university law center
stephen glass

stephen randall glass -lrb- born september 15 , 1972 -rrb- is an american former journalist .
in 1998 , it was revealed that as many as half of his published articles were fabrications .
over a three-year period as a young rising star at `` the new republic '' , glass invented quotations , sources , and events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others .
most of glass 's articles were of the entertaining and humorous type ; some were based entirely on fictional events .
his career at `` the new republic '' was dramatized in the 2003 film `` shattered glass '' , in which 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 degree in law from georgetown university law center , and , since 2004 , has worked as a paralegal at a beverly hills law firm .
while glass has passed the bar exam in both new york and california , he withdrew his application to become a licensed attorney in new york in 2004 after he was advised it would not succeed , and in 2014 the california supreme court unanimously ruled that he should not be licensed in that state .
