Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American journalist and author, born in Phoenix, Arizona, on 21 April 1960. She graduated with honours from Barnard College, and for some years she wrote a gossip column for MSNBC.com, an experience behind her early book Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip.
The Glass Castle (2005), her memoir of a childhood spent moving from place to place with an unsettled family, made her name. It stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 421 weeks, as counted in June 2018, and was released as a film in August 2017. It has more than 1.4 million Goodreads ratings. Half Broke Horses, The Silver Star and Hang the Moon are her other widely read books. In 2006 she received both the Alex Award and the Christopher Award.
The Bookish Elf has reviewed 1 book by Jeannette Walls, mostly memoir, published by Scribner, first published in 2005.
- The Glass Castle spent 421 weeks on the New York Times list
- The Glass Castle adapted as a film, 2017
- Alex Award, 2006
- Christopher Award, 2006
1She was a gossip columnist for MSNBC.com before her memoir was published.
2By June 2018 The Glass Castle had spent 421 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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How many Jeannette Walls books has The Bookish Elf reviewed?
We have reviewed 1 book by Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle.