Author

Books by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls grew up in a peripatetic family across the American Southwest and West Virginia before making her way to New York City, where she worked as a gossip journalist and columnist for New York magazine and MSNBC. The Glass Castle, published in 2005, spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over five million copies in the United States. Walls also wrote the novel Half Broke Horses (2009), based on her maternal grandmother's life, and The Silver Star (2013). She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.