Jeannette Walls is an American 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.
Walls was born on April 21, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona to Rex Walls (deceased 1994), an electrician, and Rose Mary Walls, an artist. As detailed in The Glass Castle, Walls' family life was r...
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Jeannette Walls is an American 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.
Walls was born on April 21, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona to Rex Walls (deceased 1994), an electrician, and Rose Mary Walls, an artist. As detailed in The Glass Castle, Walls' family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Phoenix, Arizona, California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco), Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness. Walls moved to New York at age 17 and graduated in 1984 with honors from Barnard College. Walls is one of four children; she has two sisters and one brother.
Walls married Eric Goldberg in 1988 (divorced, 1996) and now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia, with her second husband, journalist John J. Taylor, a former writer for...
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