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Jeannette Walls Biography
Known for her 2005, New York Times bestselling memoir The Glass Castle, this Arizona-born author also penned a popular gossip column for MSNBC.com. She published her debut work of fiction, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, in 2009.
She and her three siblings were homeless for part of their youth and lived in many states, including Arizona, California, Nevada, and West Virginia. In her late teens, she relocated to New York City and eventually earned an honors degree from Barnard College.
She began her writing career as an intern for a Brooklyn, New York-based newspaper called The Phoenix.
Her first marriage, to Eric Goldberg, lasted from 1988 until 1996. She later settled in Virginia with her second husband and fellow journalist, John Taylor.
Paramount Pictures purchased rights to Walls’ popular memoir and announced that Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence would portray Walls in the book’s film adaptation.
Walls was born on April 21, 1960, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls. Walls has two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and one brother, Brian. Walls’ family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Phoenix to California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco), to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and to Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness. When they finally landed in Rex’s Appalachian hometown of Welch the family lived in a three-room house without plumbing or heat, infested with snakes and rats.
Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) 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.
Walls graduated from Barnard College in 1984 with honors.
Early in her career Walls interned at a Brooklyn newspaper called The Phoenix and eventually became a full-time reporter there. From 1987 to 1993 she wrote the “Intelligencer” column for New York magazine. She then wrote a gossip column for Esquire, from 1993 to 1998, then contributed regularly to the gossip column “Scoop” at MSNBC.com from 1998 until her departure to write full-time in 2007. Walls has contributed to USA Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report.
Walls married Eric Goldberg in 1988; 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.
Her 2000 book, Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, was a humorous history of the role gossip has played in U.S. media, politics and life.
In 2009, Walls published her first novel, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, based on the life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith. It was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Walls’ latest novel, The Silver Star, was published in 2013.
In 2005, Walls published the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, which details the joys and struggles of her childhood. It offers a look into her life and that of her dysfunctional family. The Glass Castle was well received by critics and the public. It has sold over 2.7 million copies and has been translated into 22 languages. It received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association’s Alex Award (2006), and the Books for Better Living Award. Paramount bought the film rights to the book, and in March 2013 announced that actress Jennifer Lawrence would play Walls in the movie adaptation. On October 9, 2015, it was reported that Lawrence withdrew from the film and she would be replaced by actress Brie Larson.
What's Jeannette Walls Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Jeannette Walls Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
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| Siblings | Not Available |
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