Walls jeannette biography channel

She was born on 21 st April in , in Phoenix, Arizona, the U. Her parents lived an ordinary life. His father took electrician jobs and her mother was a teacher. Her parents are often in debt and the fear of creditors kept them in a constant move. Besides, she suffered a great loss during her early years; aged three, she burnt herself while cooking hotdogs followed by skin graft operations.

Jeannette Walls started her educational journey from a high school of her community and after her junior year of high school, she moved to New York City to join her sister. There, she started working as a journalist for the newspaper, The Phoenix.

Author Jeanette Walls shares a glimpse of her personal story: growing up homeless and succeeding beyond her dreams.

She managed to complete her graduation with honors from Barnard College in Besides working at the Brooklyn newspaper, she also offered her commendable services to Esquire Magazine and New York Magazine. Jeannette Walls, a notable figure of the contemporary world married twice. First, she married Eric Goldberg in but the two failed to stay together for a long time and parted ways in Later, in , she remarried John Taylor, her fellow journalist, and settled in Virginia.

She led a traumatic childhood and before started a reputable career she had enough to overcome everything. Surprisingly, all these obstacles could not impede her creative abilities. Rather, those fatal struggles and hardships shaped her life and enabled her to achieve her goals. She successfully pursued two careers in life; journalism and writing.