Joseph Mark Glazner
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Joseph Mark Glazner

Joseph Mark Glazner is an American Canadian memoirist, counterculture chronicler, and crime novelist.

The most recent of his four memoirs, THE BOOK OF HAPPINESS, is an upbeat, coming-of-age jaunt through one of the most exciting eras in modern history.

Viewed through the eyes of an unconventional and independently-minded boy growing up in rural New Jersey, those eighteen years of his youth—from the last months of World War II (1945) to the final weeks of President John F. Kennedy’s White House (1963)—marked what Glazner calls the beginning of everything.

He and his fellow North American cohorts were the first generation in the history of the world to grow up being simultaneously frightened and dazzled by the nuclear bomb, TV, computers, globalization, cold wars, the pill and an explosion of miracle drugs, the beginning of rock ’n’ roll, space travel, modern civil rights, women’s rights, the environmental movement, and more.

Glazner's other three standalone memoirs recount the early years of the 1960s counterculture and the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War -- CALIFORNIA 1963-1967 Spaceship Earth, LIFE AFTER AMERICA, A Memoir about the Wild and Crazy 1960s, and WHEN WAR IS OVER 1969-1975, Flower Children, Futurists, and the Last Surprise of the Vietnam War.

His eight crime novels include MURDERLAND and SMART MONEY DOESN'T SING OR DANCE by Joseph Mark Glazner, and MADELAINE, written under his pen name Joseph Louis (and nominated for a Shamus award and the Crime Writers of Canada award for best novel).

Raised in Warren, New Jersey, he left home in his late teens and lived in Los Angeles where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California (1967) and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. During his time in California, he witnessed firsthand the early years of the counterculture, the Watts Riots, and the world’s first Love-In. He also met some of the iconic figures of that era, including poet and peacenik Allen Ginsberg, The Realist publisher Paul Krassner, Warhol superstars Edie Sedgwick and Nico, and Beatles insider, Derek Taylor.

In 1967, during the early years of the Vietnam War, America’s then-longest and most unpopular war, Glazner became one of the first war resisters to go to Canada.

During his early years in Montreal, he gave John Lennon the idea for John and Yoko’s WAR IS OVER peace campaign at the Lennons’ week-long, Montreal Bed-In for Peace (1969). While writing for Montreal’s notorious tabloid Midnight, he anonymously created one of the counterculture’s most enduring urban legends—“7 US Presidents Smoked Pot” (1970). During those early years in Canada, he was also trained as a futurist by Robert Russel, one of Marshall McLuhan’s friends and the founder of one of Canada’s first think tanks.

He resides in Toronto, Canada with Joan Shirriff, his long-time life partner, and is currently at work on his next book.
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