Jeannette Walls
Geboren: April 21, 1960 – Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist whose work centers on family, resilience, poverty, and class. She is best known for the memoir The Glass Castle and the true-life novel Half Broke Horses. The Glass Castle sold millions of copies, spent years on The New York Times bestseller list, and was adapted into a film.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Jeannette Walls emerged from a childhood marked by motion, scarcity, and unusually rich storytelling. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she grew up in a family that moved through the Southwest before settling for a time in Welch, West Virginia, where the family lived in a small house without plumbing or heat and endured periods of homelessness. Those conditions became central to her later work, but so did the less obvious gifts she has described from that upbringing: books, curiosity, and a belief that a larger life was possible. At seventeen she moved to New York City to join her sister, pieced together grants, loans, scholarships, and paid work, and graduated from Barnard College with honors in 1984. That passage from instability to self-made education was the first decisive turn in her life as a writer. ((https://www.pbs.org/video/the-works-of-jeanette-walls-za2a1k/))
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"How fitting, then, that the title of Jeannette Walls's chilling memoir should evoke the architecture of fantasy and magic"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Just read the first pages of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to go on"
— Dominick Dunne
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"Jeannette Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking childhoods ever set down"
— Dani Shapiro
"Jeannette Walls once again proves that the combination of gifted storyteller with great stories is both rare and intoxicating"
— The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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— The Washington Post
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