Jeannette Walls
As one of New York’s top gossip columnists, Jeannette Walls worked hard at uncovering other people’s secrets while hiding her own. This changed when, on her way to a party, she saw a homeless woman picking through a garbage can and realized it was her mother. Deciding to confront her past, Walls wrote the memoir The Glass Castle (2005) about the grinding poverty of her childhood in West Virginia. Instead of ruining her standing with the New York media elite, the book received glowing reviews and became a huge best seller. Her new book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Simon & Shuster), tells the story of Walls’ indomitable grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who retained her independent spirit despite a life of horrendous privation in Texas and Arizona. “Like her grandmother, Walls knows how to tell a story with love and grit,” said Kirkus Reviews, joining a chorus of early praise.
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