Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it remains on the New York Times Best Seller list (now in paperback form) as of the list dated June 3, 2018, having persisted there for 421 weeks.