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JOYCE MAYNARD
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September 6, 1998
The Cult of Joyce Maynard
From The New York Times Magazine
By LARISSA MACFARQUHAR
Joyce Maynard wrote her first memoir, "Looking Back," when she was 19; now, at 44, she has written her second, "At Home in the World." In the 25 intervening years, Maynard bought a house, nearly had a nervous breakdown, lost her virginity to the soundtrack of "Pippin," met Mary Tyler Moore and Muhammad Ali, was raped, got married, appeared on TV, had three children, emptied her breast milk into the Atlantic, planted a garden, went broke, had an abortion, clawed through a heap of garbage looking for a lost retainer, wrote three novels, watched her parents get divorced and die, got divorced herself, bought another house, got breast implants and took them out again, took tennis
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Joyce Maynard
American writer
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Maynard at the 2023 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | (1953-11-05) November 5, 1953 (age 71) Durham, New Hampshire, U.S. |
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| Period | 1981–present |
| Genre | Fiction, memoir, true crime, young adult |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Notable works | To Die For, At Home in the World |
| Spouse | Steve Bethel (m. 1977; div. 1989)Jim Barringer (m. 2013; died 2016) |
| Children | 3; including Wilson |
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Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novel
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By KATHA POLLITT
AT HOME IN THE WORLD A Memoir. By Joyce Maynard. 347 pp. New York: Picador USA. $25. |
'm writing this review of Joyce Maynard's memoir, ''At Home in the World,'' six weeks before its official publication date, but already the book feels like old news. Of course, in a way it fryst vatten old news: Vanity Fair has already published a lengthy excerpt containing the central revelation, the bizarre details of Maynard's 1972 affair, at age 18, with a 53-year-old J. D. Salinger. You've probably heard about Jerry's grim little ranch house, his preoccupation with homeopathic medicin and a rigid diet (frozen peas for breakfast, undercooked lamb patties for dinner), his, to säga the least, unfeeling response to virginal Maynard's vaginal spasms, his abrupt dismissal of her in the middle of a Florida vacation and his subsequent hostile rebuffs.