Jeannette Walls

About Jeannette Walls

This Arizona-born author is best known for her New York Times bestselling memoir The Glass Castle, which was published in 2005. She also wrote a popular gossip column for MSNBC.com. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, her first work of fiction, was released in 2009.

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Awards and Christopher Award.

Genre	Non-fiction
Occupation	Author, columnist
Born	April 21, 1960, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Notable works	The Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses

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Trivia

She began her writing career as an intern for a Brooklyn, New York-based newspaper called The Phoenix.

Jeannette Walls before fame

She and her three siblings were homeless for a portion of their childhood, living in Arizona, California, Nevada, and West Virginia, among other locations. She moved to New York City in her late teens and went on to Barnard College to receive an honors degree.

Achievement of Jeannette Walls

She began her writing career as an intern at The Phoenix, a daily published in Brooklyn, New York.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$14 Million

Jeannette Walls family life

Eric Goldberg was her first husband, and they were married from 1988 to 1996. She eventually moved to Virginia with her second husband, John Taylor, a fellow journalist.

Associations of Jeannette Walls

Walls' bestselling memoir was purchased by Paramount Pictures, who also revealed that Jennifer Lawrence would play Walls in the film adaptation.Brie Larson was cast as her in the film.

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