Author Jeannette Walls’ harrowing childhood inspired her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle and a new film version (out Aug. 11), but life with her mom as an adult proved to be almost as ...

Jeannette Walls visited the Great Day Washington studio to talk about her best selling book "The Glass Castle" and the upcoming movie based up on this book! Here, Jeannette chats with Caroline Cianci ...

For a drama about a childhood filled with hunger, homelessness and poverty, the red carpet at the Wednesday night New York screening of “The Glass Castle” was a really happy one, with big laughs from ...

Reading Jeannette Walls' 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle, is a roller coster. The story is essentially the definition of stranger than fiction. Told entirely from Walls' own perspective, the narrative ...

Actress Brie Larson plays author Jeannette Walls in the new film “The Glass Castle,” based on Walls’ best-selling memoir about her dysfunctional family. Walls tells Kathie Lee that she thought she ...

Reporter Jeannette Walls was once hit on by a Kennedy. That’s what Kennedy men did. It was their life’s work. I knew her then, and when she made her bones writing a book about her dysfunctional family ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Just because The Glass Castle is based on Jeannette Walls’s childhood with ...

Jeannette Walls was doing a reading in Dallas shortly after the publication of her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. She spotted a woman in line, dressed to the nines, with big Dallas hair and big jewels.

It seems silly in retrospect, after millions of books sold and 261 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, but writer Jeannette Walls didn’t think “The Glass Castle” would connect with readers.

The writer of the bestselling memoir on her new novel about two half-sisters growing up in 1970s Virginia and the possibility of having Jennifer Lawrence play her on screen. By Andy Lewis The Silver ...

Forest Hill resident Jane O’Neill had one word to describe her experience of meeting author Jeannette Walls Wednesday evening — “surreal.” Walls, who chronicled in her 2005 memoir “The Glass Castle” ...

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. It was just after dark. A blustery March wind whipped the ...