Based on Jeannette Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle refers to the fanciful home an impoverished father intends for his family, one with glass walls that welcome natural light during the day and, at ...

Jeannette Walls became a fixture on the bestseller list with her blockbuster memoir, “The Glass Castle,” in 2005. After mining her own difficult life in that book, Walls turned toward fiction ...

Her father, Rex S. Walls, was a hard-drinking drifter who dreamed of inventing a gold-detecting gizmo that would make him rich enough to build a solar-powered glass castle for his family to live in.

Author Jeannette Walls’ harrowing childhood inspired her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle and a new film version (out Aug. 11), but life with her mom as an adult proved to be almost as ...

Hang the Moon, By Jeannette Walls (Scribner, 368 pp. $28) Jeannette Walls became a fixture on the bestseller list with her blockbuster memoir, "The Glass Castle," in 2005. After mining her own ...

Author Jeannette Walls' harrowing childhood inspired her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle and a new film version (out Aug. 11), but life with her mom as an adult proved to be almost as ...

The Glass Castle is based on Jeannette Walls’s 2005 memoir of her childhood with her troubled, nomadic family and is now a movie starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts ...