Jeannette Walls

Author Jeannette Walls

As a child, Jeannette Walls could never see herself as she is now, as successful as she is in life. After reading her memoir, I see how she could have thought that way. Her story is an admirable, captivating story that griped my heart and made me think differently.

There were happy times in her childhood, but also times of great need, where she and her siblings were constantly hungry, cold, and depending on themselves because of their parent's way of living. Jeannette only wrote the Glass Castle after a conversation she and her mother had. Jeannette was saying she was ashamed, and didn't know how to tell people about her past. Her mother simply told her to tell the truth. So she did.

After The Glass Castle, she wrote two other novels, Half Broke Horses, about her grandmother's life, and The Silver Star, which is her first work of fiction. Her biography, The Glass Castle has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. You can find Jeannette today living in her own glass castle with her second husband John Taylor.