Glenn was born 5th November 1943 and obtained a first class matriculation certificate at Grey High School, Port Elizabeth in 1960 with four distinctions.
He was a member of the B.S.A. Police in the then Rhodesia from 1961 – 1980, sixteen years of which were in the CID and Special Branch.
He left Zimbabwe in September 1980 and went into the building industry in the capacities of sales consultant, sales manager and branch manager for three different companies. He is presently on early retirement. His wife’s name is Joanna.
He has always been a keen writer and started writing poetry and short stories for fun at the age of 12. He has written seven poems, not published. While in Rhodesia he commenced a narrative in 1975 about the bush war, but aborted mainly because of time constraints. Some of that material was used in his first novel King’s Gold, published at the end of 2003 by a consortium after the original publisher went insolvent. As at October 2007 over 1500 copies have been sold.
For nearly ten years in the 1980s he was a free-lance sports correspondent for Bloemfontein newspapers and SA Bowls magazines. Glenn is an active bowler and he has played in seventeen annual inter provincial tournaments. He was in the winning side at the SA Provincials in 1999. In 2001 he became a provincial selector and served for three years.

Glenn has been the Editor of the BSA Police Regimental Association Transvaal Outpost magazine, a 40-pager issued three times a year, since 2004.