1. Joyce Maynard was born on November 5,1953 and is an American novelist and journalist.
16 Facts About Joyce Maynard
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Joyce Maynard began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times.
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Joyce Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with JD Salinger.
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Joyce Maynard won Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 1966,1967,1968,1970, and 1971.
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Joyce Maynard entered Yale University in 1971 and sent a collection of her writings to the editors of The New York Times Magazine.
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Joyce Maynard withheld information about their relationship until her 1998 memoir At Home in the World.
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Joyce Maynard left The New York Times in 1977 when she married Steve Bethel.
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From 1984 to 1990, Joyce Maynard wrote the weekly syndicated column "Domestic Affairs", dealing with marriage, parenthood, and family life.
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In 1989, when Joyce Maynard's marriage ended, more than half the newspapers that ran her "Domestic Affairs" column dropped it.
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In 1986, Joyce Maynard helped lead the opposition to the construction of the nation's first high-level nuclear waste dump in New Hampshire, with ground zero in Hillsborough, where she lived with her family.
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Joyce Maynard described this campaign in a May 1986 New York Times cover story.
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In summer 2021, Joyce Maynard published Count the Ways, a well-received novel about home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.
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In 2023, the 50th anniversary of Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties was noted, with Joyce Maynard recording an audio version of the book.
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Joyce Maynard's novel How the Light Gets In, published in June 2024 by William Morrow, is a sequel.
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Joyce Maynard married Steve Bethel in 1977 and divorced him in 1989.
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Joyce Maynard returned to Yale as a sophomore in 2018 to complete her undergraduate education.