Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
"The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long
after the rest of the house has fallen asleep."-- "Vogue"
"Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling.
The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The
Glass Castle, they have."-- "New York Newsday"
"Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass
Castle is nothing short of spectacular."-- "Entertainment Weekly"
Not a blissful childhood: MSNBC.com contributor Walls's alcoholic dad stole the grocery money, and her mother would rather paint than parent. Scribner's big book for March. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake
long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep."-- "Vogue"
"Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling.
The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In
The Glass Castle, they have."-- "New York Newsday"
"Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass
Castle is nothing short of spectacular."-- "Entertainment
Weekly"
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