
from the Muskegon Chronicle By Susan Harrison Wolffisor years, Jeannette Walls carried a secret, buried deep in her heart, hidden from view.To the outside world, she was a highly successful journalist who wrote for the New York Magazine, Esquire and USA Today. She had her own column on MSNBC.com and was a regular guest on The Today Show, CNN and PrimeTimeLive.Tall, elegant, television thin, she was a striking figure, someone who stood out from the rest of the Park Avenue crowd where she lived and worked in New York City.But she had a secret she didn't dare tell.Walls grew up mired in abject poverty, always hungry, her family usually a half-step ahead of the bill collectors -- and if they did have a roof over their collective heads, the house never had running water, a working bathroom or...