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Jeannette Walls | |
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 Jeannette Walls at the 2009 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Occupation | Novelist, columnist |
| Notable works | The Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses |
Jeannette Walls is a writer 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, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.[1]
Personal life
One of four siblings who survived infancy, Walls was born on April 21, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona [2] to Rex Walls (deceased 1994), an electrician, and Rose Mary Walls, an artist.[2] As detailed in The Glass Castle, Walls' family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Arizona, California, Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness. Walls moved to New York City at age 17[2] and graduated in 1984[2] with honors from Barnard College.
Walls married Eric Goldberg in 1988 (divorced, 1996)[2] and now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia, with her husband, journalist John J. Taylor,[2] a former writer for Esquire and the author of The Count and the Confession: A True Murder Mystery, Falling: The Story of One Marriage, and Circus of Ambition: The Culture of Wealth and Power in the Eighties.
Career
Walls has written for New York magazine (the "Intelligencer" column 1987-1993),[2] Esquire (1993–1998),[2] USA Today,[2] and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report. She contributed regularly to the gossip column "Scoop" at MSNBC.com from 1998[2] until her departure to write full-time in 2007.[3][4]
In 2000, Walls published the book Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip in which she, incidentally, outed conservative cyber-gossip Matt Drudge as gay.[5]
In 2005, Walls published the bestselling memoir The Glass Castle,[6] which Paramount[7] had bought the rights to, although never developed it into film. By late 2007, The Glass Castle had sold over 1.5 million copies, had been translated into 16 languages, and received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award (2006) and the Books for Better Living Award.[8]
In 2009, Walls published her first fiction book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, based on the life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith.
Bibliography
- Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip. New York: Avon Books, Inc., an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. March 2000. ISBN 0-380-97821-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner. March 2005. ISBN 0-743-24753-1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel. New York: Scribner. October 2009. ISBN 1-416-58628-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
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References
- ^ "Best-selling author to speak in Fremont". The Muskegon Chronicle, Susan Harrison Wolffis, June 3, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Jeannette Walls". NotableBiographies.com.
- ^ MSNBC (2007-07-26). "Jeannette Walls leaving msnbc.com". MSNBC.COM. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
- ^ "Jeannette Walls, author, The Glass Castle, gossip columnist, MSNBC.com". Gothamist. 2005-05-27. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ^ Signorile, Michelangelo (2003). Queer in America. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 408. ISBN 0299193748.
- ^ Walls, Jeannette (2006). The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner. ISBN 074324754X.
- ^ "Pitt's Plan B inks deal with Paramount". M & C News, Jun 23, 2005.
- ^ "Porter-Gaud hosts noted author Walls". Post and Courier, FYI, September 20, 2007.
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