Jeanette Walls

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1960. She is best known for her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle, which recounts her unconventional and nomadic childhood in poverty with her unstable but loving parents. The memoir became a New York Times bestseller for over eight years and was adapted into a 2017 film starring Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson.