Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona on April 21st, 1960.
Family Members
Jeannette has one brother Brian Walls, two sisters Maureen Walls and Lori Walls and her mom and dad. Jeannette's family was always "traveling" her parents like to call it, even though they were on the run from every federal agent you could think of. Every one was after the Walls family for either money or to take the Walls children because they weren't in a stable enviornment for living. Jeannette's mom and the children's grandmother always tried to persuade the kids and the mom to live with her and help to get them back on their feet but the grandmother wasn't very fond of Rex Walls the father so he wasn't allowed to come. Jeannette's mom always refused to leave her husband. The family lived the desert and abandoned buildings. Rex Walls was always getting odd jobs just to get his family buy or to buy alcohol. Rex Walls was a very bad drunk and was occasionally very aggressive never with his children but with his wife. He never did remember anything in the morning but still apologized for the broken furniture around the house. The Walls family didn't have the best family besides the mom's parents whom both past away a few months after their differences in moving in. Jeannette's mom owned a lot of land. Rex's parents were living in a broken down camper in the middle of the woods because they believe that the wilderness is the correct way to live.School Life and Childhood
Jeannette wouldn't describe her child hood as horrible in the beginning because she feel for her parents lies and thought it was an adventure her self, until she started to grow and come to reality and her parents way of living was unacceptable. Her life was difficult, her family was always on the run, there was never a stable diet running threw the house, her parents were stuck in a fantasy dream that they were going to be millionaries one day from their art and from making these huge glass houses. It was all in their but Jeannette believed it to.
On the first day of school for the kids they had to walk 12 miles there and back every day. All of the Walls children loved school but school didn't love them so much the teachers thought they were uneducated when they were actually very smart, so they were put in special services classes to help them. All of the children always got into fights that other kids had started with them because they were different and they didn't fit in. The kids were always getting followed home and ganged up on at school and no one ever did anything about it. When Jeannette reached high school she wanted to join some after school activities she wasn't every athletic or cordinated so she joined the school newspaper and it became her passion. She stayed in the office as long as she could because it was warmer and cozier than being at home. She became very popular for writing the news paper she did it for all 4 years of being there and even signed up for a scholarship in New York for a journalism school. Jeannette would have been the first to go to college in her family. Her sister Lori had already been in New York for awhile so once she left she lived with Lori for awhile while she got money together and soon bought her own place. Things were really looking up for Jeannette and Lori.Hobbies and Activities
Jeannette's hobbies while growing up were always being outside and going on hikes threw the mountains, swimming in hot tide pools in the desert mountains. She also liked exploring with her brother Brian. She hated being inside. Another thing that was popular in Weltch was to fight and throw rocks at each other and chase each other on your bikes. When Jeannette got older she baby sat and cleaned people's houses for extra money so her and her siblings were able to eat for awhile. The truth of the world was always cut off from the Walls children. She wanted to bring the truth out to people and make sure it was the real truth not the version her dad always told her. Her dream was to move to New York and be something bigger than her parents and work at New York Times as a journalist and have the whole city reading her articles.Ancedotes
Jeannette Walls is popular from writing articles in high school and them being put into writing competitions and winning for her school. She also had gotten her title from moving up in the journalism world and accomplishing her dreams and writing books and articles for the paper. Her book was very popular and when it got good ratings and a lot of people were buying she continued to write books and now she is known around the world for her hard child hood and the way she worked her way out of a struggling life.
Career
Once Jeannette moved to New York with her sister Lori she went to college to get a degree in journalism and writing. Ever since Jeannette was a child she wanted to work in the journalistic world. The world was always cut off from the Walls children and their heads were filled with lies told by their father about the government. Jeannette took the matter of the truth into her own hands and wanted to share her knowledge with world by writing articles and books. She worked for many writing offices as an editor she still dreamed of being a journalist which she did become later on in life with her second husband, who was also a writer and had a similar back round as Jeannette.Reason For Fame
Jeannette Wells became famous from writing articles in a newspaper as a young child, she decided early in life that she wanted to make journalism her profession. She went through a lot of obstacles in her life to reach her full state of happiness. Soon after finishing college and joining the New York Times as a journalist. She wrote an auto biography of her life and everything she has been threw with her family also giving her another name as an author.Later Life
Jeannette Walls is still alive today and writing books and articles still with her husband in their small farm house outside of New York City. She left her first husband shortly after her father died and remarried to a writer with a similar life style as Jeannette. They moved to a place were population siezed to exist it was very small and quiet a perfect place to release your imagination and write. She was still close to her mom, sister, and brother. Brian grew up to be a cop and had an amazing family with his beautiful wife. Lori was still focused on only work she believed that being by yourself keeps your life stable. Jeannette had no children. Everyone always came to Jeannette's house for church and dinner every Sunday it was tradition in their family now.Death
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