Jeannette Walls, author of the memoir "The Glass Castle," with correspondent Martha Teichner. CBS News She put together the school paper at the offices of the Welch Daily News.

They settle for a time in Phoenix before heading to the impoverished town of Welch, W.Va., where Jeannette spends most of her adolescence. (See yesterday's "Glass Castle" post here.) ...

WASHINGTON — A film based on a memoir of an author who grew up in West Virginia will be shown in McDowell County after it was originally not scheduled to be. Several scenes of “The Glass ...

The Glass Castle toggles back and forth between 1989, when Jeannette is logging time as a gossip columnist for New York magazine, ... They eventually settle in the town of Welch, ...

Several scenes for "The Glass Castle" were filmed in and around Welch, West Virginia, although no one knows yet if they made the final cut of the film, which will be opening Friday at the McDowell ...

In Welch, though, the children must deal with Rex’s alcoholism, his abuse of Rose Mary and the influence of his spiteful mother, Erma ... * * *<br>’The Glass Castle ...

The Glass Castle is a two-hour fight between a messy, sad, ... His children are starving and living in garbage pit in Welch, West Virginia. He drinks all day every day.

Jeannette Walls’ story is an inherently moving one. It has to be, or else her 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” would not have spent years on the New York Times best-seller list. Born to a ...

Of all the impressive rhetorical elements in “The Glass Castle,” the most tenacious was its ability to connect me with my own childhood misfortunes. Coming from a home that is best described as ...

While “Glass Castle” takes pains to show Rex’s positive aspects, ... Things get worse once Rex reluctantly moves the family back to his hometown of Welch, W.Va., ...

The first memoir I ever read was “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. Mr. Brooks, my eighth grade English teacher, divided the dozen or so students into book clubs of three, and assigned a ...