The Glass Castle Author Jeannette Walls: Her Incredible Journey From a Rat-Infested Shack to Literary Fame
As a child, author Jeannette Walls sometimes went hungry for days, lived for years in a rat-infested shack without running water, and fiercely loved her charismatic, alcoholic father, who frequently spent the few dollars the family had on beer. She transformed the story of her painful childhood into her 2005 book, The Glass Castle, one of the bestselling memoirs of all time. Now the book is finally coming to the big screen, as a movie starring Brie Larsen, Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts, in theaters Aug. 11.In an interview at her Virginia farmhouse in the new issue of People, the 57-year-old reflects on her difficult past, »
