Includes an excerpt for Hang the Moon: a novel (unnumbered pages 291-302).
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Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in the American Southwest, and Welch, West Virginia. She graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York for twenty-five years, writing for New York Magazine, Esquire, and MSNBC. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years, has been translated into more than thirty languages and was made into a film starring Brie Larson. She is also the author of the best-selling novels The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Hang the Moon, will be published by Scribner in March 2023. Walls lives in central Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
ALA Notable Books, 2006.
American Library Association Alex Award, 2006
Books for a Better Life Inspirational Memoir, 2005.
Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book, 2006.
Christopher Awards, 2006.
Elle Readers Prize, 2005
Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 2008.
Green Mountain Book Award Nominee, 2008.
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