Jeannette Walls
This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2014) Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls at the 2009 Texas Book Festival. Born (1960-04-21) April 21, 1960 (age 54) Phoenix, Arizona, US Occupation Novelist, columnist Genre Non-fiction Notable works The Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.