Jeannette Walls



Jeannette Walls

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place of birth United States

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Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book is being made into a film by Paramount.

books by Jeannette Walls

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avg rating: 4.15 | 18889 ratings | 2 distinct works
The Glass Castle: A Memoir The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls
avg rating 4.15 — 17918 ratings — published 2005
20 editions
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Dish: The Inside Story on the ... Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip (Hardcover)
by Jeannette Walls
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 2000
6 editions
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"Mom became even more concerned about my values when my editor offered me a job writing a weekly column about what he called the behind-the-scenes doings of the movers and shakers. Mom thought I should be writing exposes about oppressive landlords, social injustice, and the class struggle on the Lower East Side. But I leaped at the job, because it meant I would become one of those people who knew what was really going on. Also, most people in Welch had a pretty good idea how bad off the Walls family was, but the truth was, they all had their problems, too--they were just better than we were at covering them up. I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets."
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