Jeannette Walls

Memoirist

Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States on April 21st, 1960 and is the Memoirist. At the age of 63, Jeannette Walls biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 21, 1960
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Age
63 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$14 Million
Profession
Journalist, Writer
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Education
Barnard College
Jeannette Walls Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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Eric Goldberg, ​ ​(m. 1988; div. 1996)​, John J. Taylor, ​ ​(m. 2002)​
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Jeannette Walls Life

Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American writer and journalist best known as the author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of her nomadic family life in her youth.

It was published in 2005 and is still on the New York Times Best Seller list (now in paperback format) as of date June 3, 2018, having remained there for 421 weeks.

Early life and education

Walls were born in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 21, 1960, to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls. Lori and Maurice, both of whom have two sisters, as well as Brian, have one brother. Walls' family life was patchy, with the family moving from Phoenix to California (including a brief stay in San Francisco's Tenderloin district) to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and then to Welch, West Virginia, where there were times of homelessness. The family lived in a three-room house without plumbing or heat when they finally arrived in Welch, Rex's Appalachian hometown.

Walls went to New York at the age of 17 to join her sister Lori (at the time a waitress and then working as an artist for Archie Comics). She was subsequently able to complete a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts at Barnard College with the support of grants, loans, scholarships, and a year of answering phones at a Wall Street law firm.

Education

Walls graduated from Barnard College in 1984 with honors.

Personal life

In 1988, Walls married Eric Goldberg; they divorced in 1996. She married fellow New York writer John J. Taylor in 2002 and the couple now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia, on a 205-acre farm.

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Jeannette Walls Career

Career

Walls began interning at The Phoenix newspaper in Brooklyn, where she eventually became a full-time reporter. She wrote the "Intelligencer" column for New York magazine from 1987 to 1993. She began writing full-time in 2007 and wrote a gossip column for Esquire from 1993 to 1998, then joined MSNBC.com's gossip column "Scoop" from 1998 to 2006. Walls has contributed to USA Today, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report, among other things.

Dish: The Inside Story of Gossip, her 2000 book, was a funny look at the role gossip has played in American media, politics, and life.

Walls' best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, which chronicles her childhood's joys and struggles, was published in 2005. It gives an inside look at her personal life and that of her dysfunctional family. Critics and the general public lauded the Glass Castle's reception. It has sold more than 4 million copies and has been translated into 31 languages. The Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award (2005), and the Books for Better Living Award were given to it. Paramount bought the book's film rights and announced that actress Jennifer Lawrence would appear in the film version in March 2013. Lawrence was fired from the film on October 9, 2015, and actress Brie Larson would replace her.

Walls published Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel in 2009, based on her grandmother Lily Casey Smith's life. The New York Times Book Review editors selected it as one of the ten best books of 2009.

The Silver Star, a Walls'novel, was first published in 2013. Hang the Moon: A Novel is set to be published in March, 2023.

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