She paid the tuition with a combination of scholarship money, loans, and her own paychecks, graduating in Lori went on to become a successful illustrator and Brian a New York City cop. After creating their New York haven, the Walls brood had sent for their youngest sister, Maureen. Once she joined her siblings, Rex and Rose Mary, those old agents of chaos, decided to make a move as well, arriving in New York themselves in From the back of a taxi, she spots her mother rooting through a Dumpster.
But you gotta come down and work in the squat for the day. When he found out I went to Barnard, he was very upset. And when he found out I worked at New York magazine, that was it. Eric said, Come live with me, instead. Eric was Eric Goldberg, a man Jeannette was seeing at the time. He had grown up on Park Avenue and lived there still. So she moved uptown in a big way. In those days of downtown battles between police and squatters, Jeannette frequently saw her father being interviewed on local evening news programs.
And the phone just kept on ringing. Donald could hear. Honey, I got a Pulitzer in the bag for you right here. Grab your notepad, get in a taxi, and get on down here! You never reach for the stars! I taught for a year.
In , Jeannette and Eric Goldberg were married. They had a big reception at the Harvard Club. In the grand apartment Jeannette shared with Goldberg, whom she ended up divorcing in , she would find herself looking guiltily around the living room.
But what could I do? They said that they were living the way they wanted to. It took real work for Jeannette to fit in with the circles she was now traveling in. I loved wearing that dress. I had the big shoulders, I had the big hair.
I loved the 80s. It was all about power women. Outta my way! And I think it was a convincing package, because people were intimidated, O. A couple people lashed out at me. You had everything handed to you. Did that remark make Jeannette angry? To the contrary. I pulled it off! The whole concept of bettering yourself Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
I guess what they wanted was for me to live in the East Village and fight the fights with them. One day she tried to impress him by timing it so that he would see her just as she stepped into a limousine that had been sent for her. A stretch limo! In , after a long courtship which Taylor partially recounts in his memoir of his first marriage, Falling: The Story of One Marriage , Jeannette and John were married.
They have two greyhounds rescued from the track and no children of their own. Taylor has a daughter from his first marriage. Unlike those year-old memoirists who bag a book deal the day after leaving rehab, Jeannette held her story back from almost everyone she knew, even her closest friends—Taylor among them.
He noticed some holes in my story. And I told him. But I was ashamed. If you have that sort of past, you either exploit it or are ashamed of it, one or the other. And I was doubly ashamed, because Mom and Dad were in the city. Jeanette or Jeannette or Jeanetta is a female name, a diminutive form of the name Jeanne.
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Co-authors 4. Despite the hardships of her home life, Walls—taught to read at an early age by her mother—excelled in school. Walls and her older sister began planning their escape from Welch and a home where wooden electrical spools served as their only furniture when they were in their teens. When a pair of documentary filmmakers from New York City visited the town, both she and Lori were interviewed by them; in return, they grilled the New Yorkers about what life was like there. Lori fled first, and Walls dropped out of high school after her junior year in and got on a bus to join her.
They shared an apartment in the South Bronx, which was not a particularly nice neighborhood even then, but the sisters considered it paradise. Despite the dangerous streets, they were thrilled to live in a place that had water, heat, and electricity. Walls and her sister easily found service-industry jobs, and sent for their brother.
Back in West Virginia, Walls had worked on the school newspaper, and when she began high school in New York, her teachers directed her toward an internship at an alternative newspaper. From there she went on to Barnard College, part of the Columbia University system. She graduated in , having financed her degree with some scholarship funds, student loans, and her own earnings.
In the interim, the Walls siblings had sent for their youngest sister, Maureen, at which point Rex and Rose Mary decided to move to New York City, too. Dismayed but hopeful that the city would have some sort of positive effect on their free-spirited but ambition-less parents, Walls and her sister tried to help them at first, but Lori was forced to kick them out, and after that they lived in a van. Eventually, they joined the city's burgeoning homeless population.
Walls' story also had a Cinderella element: she began dating someone from moneyed, old-New York family. She eventually moved into the family home, in a plush Park Avenue building, and when they wed in , she did not invite her parents to the ceremony and reception at the elite Harvard Club. By then she was writing the "Intelligencer" column for New York magazine, which was not technically a gossip column but more of a weekly monitor of Manhattan media, politics, and celebrity cultures.
At the time, her parents were living in a "squat," or an off-the-books residence in an abandoned building. This was a point when the issue of homelessness was gaining a great deal of media attention, and squatting was in some cases a form of political protest. Rex proved a media-savvy ringleader, and Walls sometimes saw him being interviewed for the local television news. Walls' husband knew her full story, but no one in her professional life did.
She was increasingly successful at her job, and the cutthroat magazine atmosphere did not deter her. You had everything handed to you. I was like, 'Yes! I pulled it off! She begged him to keep the story quiet, but around this same time she finally confessed to a female colleague at the magazine. That woman later wrote a romance novel about a high-profile Manhattanite, redheaded like Walls, who covers up an impoverished Appalachian past.
The "Intelligencer" column was read and noticed by many, and Walls had little trouble moving on to a higher-profile job after a few years. Walls' first book was published in Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, was not a tell-all on the industry, but instead recounted its history in American pop culture over the decades. It also charted the explosive rise of a celebrity-driven media industry over the past decade.
Her book did offer one somewhat scandalous assertion: she "outed" Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report, revealing the sexual orientation of the Internet scribe who first broke the Monica Lewinsky story. In response, Drudge published Walls' home phone number on his site, but Walls said she refused to change the listing and instead answered every call. Walls' first marriage ended after almost a decade. In , she wed a fellow journalist, John Taylor, who was familiar with the confessional-memoir genre.
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