Joyce Maynard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joyce Maynard
Occupation	Non-Fiction Author
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1953(1953-11-05)
Age	71
Birthplace	Durham
Country	United States
Birth City	New Hampshire
Horoscope	Scorpio

Joyce Maynard Biography

Joyce Maynard is one of the most popular and richest Non-Fiction Author who was born on November 5, 1953 in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. A American writer, known for her writings of fiction as well as non-fiction, she is most well-known for her 1998 memoir at Home in the World. The book traces her love affair with the author who was a reclusive J.D. Salinger at the age of eighteen , and Salinger was in his fifties.

Her novel from 1992, To Die For, was made into a film featuring Her 1992 novel, To Die For, was adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman…

Maynard and Salinger exchanged letters. After her freshman year at Yale, she moved into his house in Cornish, New Hampshire. Salinger and his wife had divorced in 1967. While living with him for eight months, mid-1972 till March 1973, Maynard wrote her first book, a memoir titled Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, which was published in 1973 soon after Maynard and Salinger ended their relationship.

Maynard attended the Oyster River school district and Phillips Exeter Academy. She won Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971. In her teens, she wrote regularly for Seventeen magazine. She entered Yale University in 1971 and sent a collection of her writings to the editors of The New York Times Magazine. They asked her to write an article, which was published under the title “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life” in the magazine’s April 23, 1972 issue. After the article was published, she got a letter from fiction writer J. D. Salinger, then 53 years old, who complimented her writing and warned her of the dangers of publicity.

She got married to Steve Bethel in 1977. They had three children, named Audrey, Charlie, and Wilson.

Joyce Maynard Net Worth

Joyce Maynard is one of the richest Non-Fiction Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joyce Maynard 's net worth $6 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her writing was for Seventeen magazine when she was still in the teen years. When she was in 1971, she started the course of study in Yale University.

She began her work at The New York Times in 1975.

Daphne 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 novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew from the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted into the 1995 film of the same name. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, which deals with her affair with J. D. Salinger.

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Who is Joyce Maynard Dating?

According to our records, Joyce Maynard married to Jim Barringer , Steve Bethel. As of December 1, 2023, Joyce Maynard’s is not dating anyone.

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Maynard withheld from her published work information about their relationship until her 1998 memoir At Home in the World. During the same year, she auctioned the letters that Salinger had written to her. Software developer Peter Norton bought the letters for $156,500 and returned them to Salinger.

Facts & Trivia

Joyce Ranked on the list of most popular Non-Fiction Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joyce Maynard celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

Maynard and her sister Rona, a writer and retired editor of Chatelaine magazine, collaborated on an examination of their sisterhood. Rona Maynard’s memoir My Mother’s Daughter was published in the fall of 2007.

Where is Joyce Maynard now?

She may be known as “the person who slept with J. D. Salinger,” but she remains very much her own artist. Joyce Maynard outside her home in Guatemala.

How old is Joyce Maynard?

68 years (November 5, 1953)

Where is Joyce Maynard from?

Durham, NH

Who is Joyce Maynard's husband?

Husband

Who are Joyce Maynard's children?

Children