Glenn Kurtz is an American writer and the author of Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf, 2007; Vintage paperback, 2008).

[1] Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program.

[2] Practicing has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, and in other publications, and on NPR.

The book based on this journey is titled Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).

[5] The film Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022), directed by Bianca Stigter, is based on the book.