Joyce Maynard Pics and Bio
Joyce Maynard is an accomplished writer, having composed books like To Die For, which was later turned into a movie starring Nicole Kidman. But what many people recognize Maynard for is her relationship with reclusive author JD Salinger, which began when she was only 18 and he was already 53.
Interest in Maynard has grown since Salinger's January 2010 death (HuffingtonPost.com)
According to Wikipedia.org, it was Maynard's New York Times Magazine article "An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life" that initially caught Salinger's eye. He wrote her a letter complimenting her writing abilities and cautioning her about life in the spotlight, which ultimately began a pen pal relationship between the two. Twenty-five letters later, Maynard dropped out of Yale and moved in with Salinger for 10 months while she wrote her first book, Looking Back.
The couple's romance ended shortly before the work was published, with Salinger's daughter Margaret claiming Maynard wanted children and thought Salinger was too old to deliver. In her memoir, however, Maynard blames Salinger for the split, saying he suddenly dumped her and she begged him to take her back.
It was about two decades later, in 1992, that Maynard published To Die For. In 1999 she wrote a memoir, At Home in the World, in which she discussed her relationship with Salinger for the first time and auctioned off the letters he wrote her to pay for her children's education.
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Interest in Maynard has grown since Salinger's January 2010 death (HuffingtonPost.com)According to Wikipedia.org, it was Maynard's New York Times Magazine article "An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life" that initially caught Salinger's eye. He wrote her a letter complimenting her writing abilities and cautioning her about life in the spotlight, which ultimately began a pen pal relationship between the two. Twenty-five letters later, Maynard dropped out of Yale and moved in with Salinger for 10 months while she wrote her first book, Looking Back.
The couple's romance ended shortly before the work was published, with Salinger's daughter Margaret claiming Maynard wanted children and thought Salinger was too old to deliver. In her memoir, however, Maynard blames Salinger for the split, saying he suddenly dumped her and she begged him to take her back.
It was about two decades later, in 1992, that Maynard published To Die For. In 1999 she wrote a memoir, At Home in the World, in which she discussed her relationship with Salinger for the first time and auctioned off the letters he wrote her to pay for her children's education.
Madisonstjohn.com
Arlindo-correia.com
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