Born on March 3, 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ira glass is a public radio and television personality best known for hosting and producing the radio and television show This American Life. Born to an accountant and a psychologist, he attended Milford Mill High School where he became active in student theater. He eventually went to Northwestern University in Illinois, later on transferring to Brown University, where he majored in semiotics. Glass has been in the radio broadcasting industry for more than 30 years, starting off as an intern at National Public Radio. He then became a reporter and host on several NPR programs such as Morning Edition, All Things considered and Talk of the Nation. He is best known, however, for This American Life, a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio that features essays, memoirs, and nonfiction of journalistic nature. Its first episode aired in November 1995. Four years later, talks of a television adaptation started, with the official series premiering on March 22, 2007 on Showtime. In 2008, the series won two Emmys for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.