Jeannette Walls, 55, lives in Culpeper, Virginia with her husband John J. Taylor. She has had a very interesting yet undesirable life and has been through so many things throughout her life as well. Walls is a very ambitious women that ever since she was a little girl wanted to just get out of the mess her parents had gotten her into. A few of the difficult things that she has been through throughout her life have been homelessness, she had also been molested, in five years she had moved about 27 times, and had to deal daily with her dysfunctional family. Her dad had been an alcoholic for a very long time and her mom just seemed unsure about everything and a bit bi-polar. Her childhood had been nothing but bad news and her family had always lived in poverty. When Walls and her family had moved to Welch, Virginia Jeannette had always done an outstanding job at school. Her being poor never got in the way of her and her education not even being in the poorest family of Welch. Jeannette Walls would go days without eating but she would be smart and wait for lunch to be over and take the leftovers from the trash of her classmates. She would come home to her dad being drunk or come home to not seeing him at all. Walls and her sister Lori eventually got really tired of the life they were living and decided to leave Welch and head to New York! That made a huge step to their news lives. Jeannette Walls is now a great writer and has overcome many of the obstacles that have came her way.
Brennan, Carol. "Jeannette Walls." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Spring 2005. Web. 04 June 2015.
Brennan, Carol. "Jeannette Walls." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Spring 2005. Web. 04 June 2015.