Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Joanna McClelland Glass

PlaywrightWashington, DC

Canada
Expert
Joanna McClelland Glass 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

Gwen Groves Robinson

Washington, DC

Gwen Groves Robinson is the daughter of Manhattan Project Director General Leslie Groves. Gwen attended the National Cathedral Schools for Girls in Washington, D.

Hugh Bradner

Los Alamos, NM

Hugh “Brad” Bradner was a physicist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Jackie Peterson

Hanford, WA

Jackie Peterson is an independent curator and exhibit developer in Seattle, Washington.  Peterson earned her bachelor degrees in English and History from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in Museum Studies from New York University.

John Coster-Mullen

John Coster-Mullen is a nuclear archaeologist and author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret, Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man.