13 Facts About Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award and Christopher Award.

Walls was born on April 21,1960, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls.

Jeannette Walls has two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and one brother, Brian.

Jeannette Walls moved to New York at age 17 to join her sister Lori.

Early in her career Jeannette Walls interned at a Brooklyn newspaper called The Phoenix and eventually became a full-time reporter there.

Jeannette Walls then wrote a gossip column for Esquire, from 1993 to 1998, then contributed regularly to the gossip column "Scoop" at MSNBC.

Jeannette Walls has contributed to USA Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report.

Jeannette Walls's 2000 book, Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, was a humorous history of the role gossip has played in US media, politics and life.

In 2005, Jeannette Walls published the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, which details the joys and struggles of her childhood.

In 2009, Jeannette Walls published her first novel, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, based on the life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith.

Jeannette Walls has spun another rich story that spotlights, as she said in a recent interview, 'people with dreams and vulnerabilities, tough folk in rough situations.

Jeannette Walls married Eric Goldberg in 1988; they divorced in 1996.

Jeannette Walls married fellow New York writer John J Taylor in 2002, and the couple now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia, on a 205-acre farm.