Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

 . October 2009. Walls' family life was rootless with the family shuttling from Phoenix Arizona California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco) Battle Mountain Nevada and Welch West Virginia with periods of homelessness.

com — and author of The Glass Castle a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.