Cover of Looking Back

Daphne Joyce Maynard (November 5, 1953 - ) is an American writer who became famous for her relationship with J. D. Salinger. Image File history File links Joyce_maynard_looking_back_cover. ... Image File history File links Joyce_maynard_looking_back_cover. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic novel that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ...

Maynard was a student in the first coeducational class at Phillips Exeter Academy, and 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 for them, which was published as An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back On Life on April 23, 1972. The article garnered a great deal of attention, including a letter from J. D. Salinger, then 53 years old, who complimented her writing and warned her of the dangers of publicity. They continued to correspond, and after finishing her freshman year, Maynard visited Salinger in New Hampshire. She dropped out of Yale and lived with Salinger for ten months. She published her first book, Looking Back, at the age of nineteen. The Academy Building Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter, or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9-12, located on 471. ... Yale redirects here. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,359 sq. ...

For many years, Maynard chose not to discuss her affair with Salinger in any of her writings, but she broke her silence in a memoir called At Home In The World. In 1999 she outraged many of Salinger's fans by selling his letters to her, saying that she was forced to do so for financial reasons; she would have preferred to donate them to Beinecke Library. Software developer Peter Norton bought the letters for $156,000 and announced his intention to return them to Salinger. Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. ... Peter Norton Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software publisher and philanthropist. ...

Maynard gained widespread commercial acceptance with the publication of her novel To Die For, about the Pamela Smart murder which was later produced as a film starring Nicole Kidman. To Die For is a 1995 film written by Buck Henry, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard (ISBN 0595269397), and directed by Gus Van Sant. ... Pamela Ann (nèe Wojas) Smart (born August 16, 1967), is serving a life sentence in the U.S. state of New York for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire. ... Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. ...

Novels

Fiction

• Baby Love (1981)
• To Die For (1992)
• Where Love Goes (1995)
• The Usual Rules (2003)
• The Cloud Chamber (2005)
• Internal Combustion (Forecoming, 2006)

Nonfiction

• Looking Back (1973)
• Domestic Affairs (1987)
• At Home In The World (1998)

External links

• Official website
• Joyce Maynard on the Internet Movie Database
• 1992 audio interview with Joyce Maynard by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio
• Why Does the American Press Hate Joyce Maynard? by Jules Siegel
• If You Really Want to Hear About It Review by Jules Siegel originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle.