Jeannette Walls

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeannette Walls
Occupation	Memoirist
Date Of Birth	Apr 21, 1960(1960-04-21)
Age	64
Birthplace	Phoenix
Country	United States
Birth City	Arizona
Horoscope	Taurus

Jeannette Walls Biography

Jeannette Walls is one of the most popular and richest Memoirist who was born on April 21, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Known for her 2005, New York Times bestselling memoir The Glass Castle, this Arizona-born author also penned a popular gossip column for MSNBC.com. She published her debut work of fiction, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, in 2009.

Paramount Pictures purchased rights to Walls’ popular memoir and announced that Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence would portray Walls in the book’s film adaptation.

Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author 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. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Awards and Christopher Award.

Walls graduated from Barnard College in 1984 with honors.

Her first marriage, to Eric Goldberg, lasted from 1988 until 1996. She later settled in Virginia with her second husband and fellow journalist, John Taylor.

Jeannette Walls Net Worth

Jeannette Walls is one of the richest Memoirist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeannette Walls 's net worth $14 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She and her three siblings were homeless for part of their youth and lived in many states, including Arizona, California, Nevada, and West Virginia. In her late teens, she relocated to New York City and eventually earned an honors degree from Barnard College.

She began her writing career as an intern for a Brooklyn, New York-based newspaper called The Phoenix.

Walls was born on April 21, 1960, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls. Walls has two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and one brother, Brian. Walls’ family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Phoenix to California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco), to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and to Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness. When they finally landed in Rex’s Appalachian hometown of Welch the family lived in a three-room house without plumbing or heat, infested with snakes and rats.

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Walls’ latest novel, The Silver Star, was published in 2013.

Facts & Trivia

Jeannette Ranked on the list of most popular Memoirist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jeannette Walls celebrates birthday on April 21 of every year.

Did Jeannette Walls really get burned?

At 3, Walls was so severely burned while boiling hot dogs that she required skin grafts and spent six weeks in the hospital, from which her father ‘rescued’ her, ignoring the alarmed cries of a nurse. The experience left Jeannette with physical scars and a worrisome case of pediatric pyromania.

Where is Rose Mary Walls today?

Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts play Rex, who died in 1994, and Rose Mary, who now lives with her daughter on a horse farm in Orange, Va.)

Where is the Walls family now?

Personal life. Walls married Eric Goldberg in 1988; they divorced in 1996. She married fellow New York writer John J. Taylor in 2002, and the couple now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia , on a 205-acre farm.

How did Jeannette Walls become successful?

While her father eventually descended into alcoholism and her mother became homeless by choice, Walls went on to achieve success as a writer and journalist. She graduated from Barnard College in 1984 and became a celebrity gossip reporter, first for various high-profile publications and then for MSNBC.

What mental illness does Rose Mary have in The Glass Castle?

Walls’ father, Rex, was a charming, intelligent alcoholic who was also likely suffering from an undiagnosed bipolar disorder ; her mother Mary Rose is a self-described “excitement addict” who often neglected her children to focus on her painting.