![]() ![]() ![]() The truth is, living in the country, I mean, I love animals, but you come to understand - there are just too many deer here, and they needed to be harvested. Walls said, “but the stew we’ll have tonight is venison. The engines rumbled as the two vehicles rolled past the pond. Taylor was piloting a smaller and zippier ATV. She said she was going to show me the prize chestnut trees in the woods and the place where her parents were buried. On a chilly gray afternoon at the end of February, she was behind the wheel of an all-terrain vehicle, driving down a rough path on the 320-acre property she owns with her husband, the nonfiction author John Taylor. But even after more than 15 years in rural Virginia as a novelist who can send drafts to her editor more or less on her own schedule, she still seems like a reporter on deadline. She worked as a journalist in New York for nearly three decades and gave it up only when her book had spent months on best-seller lists. Jeannette Walls could have had a life of leisure after the big success of her 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” but she has too much energy for that. ![]()
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