Jeannette Walls is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks. ^ "Best-selling author to speak in Fremont". The Muskegon Chronicle, Susan Harrison Wolffis, June 3, 2008.