4 Quotes & Sayings By Jeannette Walls (Author)

Jeannette Walls was born in 1958 in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She grew up in a small town in Virginia, graduated from high school there, and attended college in nearby Richmond. She now lives with her husband and their two children on an island off the coast of Maine. Jeannette’s first book, The Glass Castle, was a national bestseller and was adapted into an award-winning film by the same name Read more

Her second book, The Age of Miracles, received both the National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award for excellence in fiction. Her third novel, The Goldfinch, was published to critical acclaim and won the 2014 National Book Award (longlist) and the 2015 Pulitzer Prize (finalist). It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Brage Prize.

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Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else. Jeannette Walls (Author)
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We climbed under the chain fence and knelt around Dad while he petted the cheetah. By then a few people had begun to gather. One man was calling to us to get back behind the chain fence. We ignored him. I knelt close to the cheetah. My heart was beating fast, but I wasn’t scared, only excited. I could feel the cheetah’s hot breath on my face. He looked right at me. His amber eyes were steady but sad, as if he knew he’d never see the plains of Africa again. Jeannette Walls (Author)
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Wondering why you survived don't help you survive Jeannette Walls (Author)