Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. She is also a journalist, who formerly worked as a gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. Jeannette is a New York Times bestselling author. Growing up, her family moved around from place to place – living in places like Phoenix, San Francisco, Nevada and West Virginia. Other times, they were homeless. Eventually, in West Virginia, they had three rooms, no plumbing or heat, but they did have snakes and rats. Jeannette moved to New York City where she finished high school and worked at a law firm on Wall Street. She graduated from Barnard College in 1984, with honours. Jeannette lives on a 205-acre farm in Virginia with her husband, John J. Taylor, and her mother.