Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls 2009

Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American journalist and writer.

Live and act

Walls studied at Barnard College and worked as a journalist in New York City and Long Island for over 20 years . She wrote society columns for E! Channel and New York magazine Intelligencer and hosted a live broadcast three times a week on morning TV on MSNBC . She has been working full-time as a writer since 2007.

Jeannette Walls published the autobiography Schloss aus Glas about her extraordinary childhood in 2006 , which helped her to gain international fame. The title has been translated into 23 languages. In Germany alone sold Glass Castle more than 500,000 times, 26 weeks was the book on the Spiegel bestseller list and was in 2017 by Destin Daniel Cretton filmed . The novel biography about her grandmother, An Untamed Life , published in 2009, even made it onto the SPIEGEL bestseller list for 115 weeks.

Jeannette Walls lives in Virginia with her husband.

Works (selection)

• The glass castle. A memoir . Scribner, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4165-4466-1 .
  • German translation: lock made of glass. 21st edition. Diana Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-35135-6 (EA Munich 2006; translated by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann).
  • German audio book: Lock made of glass . Abridged version. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-30436-2 (5 CDs, read by Ulrike Grote).
  • Filmed in 2017 by Destin Daniel Cretton ; Castle of Glass
• Half broke horses. A true-life novel . Scribner, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-8628-9 .
  • German translation: An untamed life. Novel . Diana-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-35562-0 (EA Hamburg 2010; translated by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann).
  • German audio book: An untamed life . Random House Audio, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8371-0366-3 (6 CDs, read by Sandra Borgmann)
• The silver star. A novel . Scribner, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4516-6150-7 .
  • English audio book: The Silver star . Audioworks, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4423-6285-7 (7 CDs).
  • German translation: The other side of heaven. Novel . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40465-4 (translated by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann)
  • German audio book: The other side of heaven . Hoffmann & Campe Audio, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-31001-6 (6 CDs, read by Floriane Kleinpaß).

Web links

• Literature by and about Jeannette Walls in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe

Individual evidence

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