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
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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.