Background
Walls, Jeannette was born in 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Daughter of Rex and Rose Mary Walls.
(Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is ob...)
Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is obsessed with gossip. Here is a fascinating look at five decades of dish: a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the personalities that control what we read and see; the unholy and unchanging trinity of celebrity, publicist and reporter that has stoked the American appetite for gossip from the salad days of silver-screen magazines to the instantaneous communication of the scoop-filled Internet. Insider Jeannette Walls delivers a tantalizing tell-all that features not only gossip itself, but its history, its movers and shakers (including quite a few tony Ivy Leaguers), high and low points, and the watershed events and personalities--like Elvis, Diana, Michael Jackson and O. J.--that altered it forever. Here is the famous formula for People, the astonishing magazine that began amid sneers and snipes but went on to become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Here too is the incredible truth behind explosive material that didn't see the light of day. From the humble beginnings of the National Enquirer, aided by the avuncular beneficence of crime kingpin Joe Costello, to the lurid Hollywood trial of Confidential magazine, where the "libeled" stars were proved more guilty than not of the salacious episodes the publication revealed, Jeannette Walls expertly traces the formation and development of the hush-hush industry. She shows us that tabloid TV shows are nothing new: they were preceded in the Fifties by the wildly successful Night Beat, hosted by none other than Mike Wallace, who turned the show into a forum for sex and scandal with his relentless prying and probing into the lives of celebrated figures.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380978210/?tag=2022091-20
("Filha, a gente não tem dinheiro para o presente, mas esc...)
"Filha, a gente não tem dinheiro para o presente, mas escolhe uma estrela no céu, e fica com ela pra toda a vida." Todo mundo pode dar uma segunda chance à vida. Em suas memórias, a jornalista e escritora Jeannette Walls nos mostra, sem pieguices e respostas fáceis, que tudo na vida é mesmo relativo, que as adversidades podem ser vividas com leveza, somando aprendizado e grandeza às nossas biografias.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8520920403/?tag=2022091-20
("Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." ...)
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416586296/?tag=2022091-20
Walls, Jeannette was born in 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Daughter of Rex and Rose Mary Walls.
She finished high school in the city, and with grants, loans, scholarships and a year spent answering phones at a Wall Street law firm, put herself through Barnard and graduated in 1984 with honors.
Walls" family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Phoenix, Arizona, California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco), Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness. When they finally landed in Rex’s Appalachian hometown, Welch, West Virginia, the family lived in a three-room house without plumbing or heat, infested with snakes and rats. Early in her career Walls interned at a Brooklyn newspaper called The Phoenix and eventually became a full-time reporter there.
From 1987 to 1993 she wrote the "Intelligencer" column for New York magazine.
She contributed regularly to the gossip column "Scoop" at Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com from 1998 until her departure to write full-time in 2007. She has also written for Esquire (1993–1998), and United States of America Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, Cable News Network, Primetime, and The Colbert Report.
Her 2000 book, Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, was a humorous history of the role gossip has played in United States. media, politics and life. In that book, Walls incidentally outed conservative cyber-gossip Matt Drudge as gay.
In 2005, Walls published the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, which details the joys and struggles of her childhood.
lieutenant offers a look into her life and that of her charismatic but dysfunctional family. The Glass Castle was well received by critics and the public. lieutenant has sold over 2.7 million copies and has been translated into 22 languages.
Paramount bought the film rights to the book, and in March 2013 announced that actress Jennifer Lawrence would play Walls in the movie adaptation.
On October 9, 2015, it was reported that Lawrence withdrew from the film and she would be replaced by actress Brie Larson. Walls"s latest novel, The Silver Star, was published on June 11, 2013.
("Filha, a gente não tem dinheiro para o presente, mas esc...)
(Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is ob...)
(Book by Jeannette Walls, Ulrike Klein, Gabriele Kugler-Eu...)
("Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." ...)
(The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Walls, Jeannette)
(Book by Walls, Jeannette)
(First Edition)
Married Eric Goldberg, 1988 (divorced 1996). Married John Taylor.