Joanna McClelland Glass

PlaywrightWashington, DC

Canada

Expert

Listen to Joanna McClelland Glass’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Joanna McClelland Glass is a playwright best known for her play, Trying, based on her relationship with Francis Biddle, who was the United States Attorney General under FDR and chief judge at the Nuremberg Trials. Glass worked for Biddle in 1967 up until his death in 1968. Glass is the author of two novels, one of which, Women Wanted, was turned into a film.

Related Profiles

Roger Robb

Washington, DC

Roger Robb (1907-1985) was an American attorney. An ardent conservative, Robb was a courtroom veteran as both a U.

C. D. Howe

Canada

Clarence Decatur “C.D.” Howe was Canada’s Minister of Munitions and Supply during World War II.

Martyl Langsdorf

Chicago, IL

Martyl Suzanne Langsdorf was born on March 16, 1917. Her mother was a painter and her father was a photographer.

Bertrand Goldschmidt

Chicago, IL

Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French chemist, who worked at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.