Jeannette Walls was a journalist in New York after graduating from Barnard College. For more than six years, her book, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller. She's also the author of The Silver Star, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and Half Broke Horses, which was voted one of The New York Times Book Review's ten greatest books of 2009. Walls and her writer husband, John Taylor, live in rural Virginia.