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Jeannette Walls Biography
Jeannette Walls was born April 21, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona and later was a journalist in New York.
Walls was born to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls. She had an older sister, Lori, a younger brother, Brian, and a younger sister, Maureen. She was married to Eric Goldberg, an accountant who lived on Park Avenue, from 1988-96 and is currently married to John Taylor, an author in Virginia, since 2002.
Watch video to hear from Jeannette Walls as she goes through what her childhood of homelessness was like and her thoughts on later seeing her mother alone on the streets.
Walls wrote her bestseller memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. She is also famous for books Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip (2000), Half Broke Horses (2009), and The Silver Star (2013).
Walls graduated from Barnard College in 1984. She started her career as a journalist for The Phoenix.
Walls has also been a part of New York magazine, Esquire,and USA Today.
Fun Facts:
When Walls left her parents and went to join her older sister, Lori, in New York, she got a job at a burger place immediately after arriving.
Walls has even been interviewed on the Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show!
Currently, Walls is known for her work and contributions to the MSNBC.com gossip column “Scoop”.
Lori and Jeannette shared an apartment. While Jeannette was at school, Lori would work all day and Jeannette would start right after school. Later, Jeannette got an internship at a local paper in Brooklyn that hired her after she graduated.
Works Cited
“Jeannette Walls.” Simon & Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jeannette-Walls/19723841.
“Jeannette Walls.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Mar. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Walls.
“Jeannette Walls Answers Your Questions.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 15 Mar. 2005, abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Entertainment/story?id=552776&page=1.
Walls, Jeannette. “Jeannette Walls Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & Essays.” GradeSaver: Getting you the grade, www.gradesaver.com/author/jeannette-walls.
Windolf, Jim. “The Rags to Riches Story of Gossip Columnist Jeannette Walls.” HWD, Vanity Fair, 7 Aug. 2017, www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2005/04/jeannette-walls-msnbc-gossip-past.