Jeannette Walls was doing a reading in Dallas shortly after the publication of her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. She spotted a woman in line, dressed to the nines, with big Dallas hair and big jewels.

Courtesy Lionsgate. The 2005 memoir detailed Walls’ unconventional upbringing by her father, Rex (played by Woody Harrelson), and mother, Rose Mary (played by Naomi Watts).After enduring an ...

Jeannette Walls has to be careful with pronouns. When talking about her former life as a gossip columnist for such venues as New York magazine and MSNBC, she uses the first person: “I was a ...

Nine years later, on 20 June 1224, Henry III and his army besieged Bedford Castle. It lasted eight weeks and around 200 people were thought to have died, records show.

When Walls was growing up, she was molested; the family moved 27 times in five years. On "CBS This Morning," Walls called her childhood a "pretty wicked" time that she tried to hide for a long time.

‘Glass Castle’ Author Jeannette Walls Talks New Novel. The writer of the bestselling memoir on her new novel about two half-sisters growing up in 1970s Virginia and the possibility of having ...

In one of the first scenes of The Glass Castle, Rex Walls, played by Woody Harrelson, forcibly throws his daughter, who can't swim, into the deep end of a pool. On purpose. Not once. Not twice.

Excavations at a medieval castle reveal the internal walls of Sheffield Castle, as well as the foundation of a drawbridge that cross a moat ...