Jeannette Walls on American Spark
Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses, and The Silver Star. She chats with May-Lily Lee about her memoir The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, and reveals why it took 20 years to write. Half-Broke Horses was a follow-up to her memoir, a true-life novel about her grandmother. She discusses how by the time she started her next book - The Silver Star - she had to re-think her notions of what fiction writing can be. Plus, Jeannette Walls offers up Life 101.