Writers Conference April 20-22, 2007: Keynote Speaker / 20081120

2007 ASJA Writers Conference
Public: April 21 - April 22, 2007
Members: April 20 - April 22, 2007
Grand Hyatt Hotel
42nd and Grand Central Station, New York, NY
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Saturday Keynote Speaker
Jeannette Walls

Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle, has been called "a story of precision and grace [carved out of] one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking stories ever to be set down on page." This award-winning memoir has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eleven months and is being published in more than a dozen countries. Movie rights have been optioned by Paramount.

The Atlanta Constitution declared: "Charles Dickens has nothing on Jeannette Walls … Dickens' scenes of poverty and hardship are no more audacious and provocative than those in the pages of this stunning memoir." Walls graduated from Columbia University's Barnard College with honors and went on to become a reporter for New York, Esquire, USA Today and MSNBC.com, where she currently works.