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Jeannette Walls is an American writer and journalist, best known as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and the author of The Glass Castle (The Glass Castle), a memoir of her nomadic family life in childhood that remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 100 weeks.

Jeannette Walls was born on April 21, 1960, in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated with honors from Barnard in 1984. She worked at a newspaper in Brooklyn called the Phoenix. From 1987 to 1993, she wrote the “Secret Agent” column for New York magazine. She regularly contributed to MSNBC.com's gossip column “Scoop” from 1998 to 2007. She has also written for Esquire (1993–1998) and USA Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report.

Jeannette was married to Eric Goldberg in 1988 (divorced in 1996), and now lives outside Culpeper, Virginia, with her second husband, journalist John J. Taylor. They live on a 205-acre farm with her mother, Rose Mary.