Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard
Daphne Joyce Maynardis an American novelist and journalist. She received much attention from the press with the publication of her 1998 memoir At Home in the World, in which she wrote that she had lived with the writer J. D. Salinger when he was 53 and she was 18...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth5 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
children parenting single-child
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
home made
A good home must be made, not bought.
loyalty persons deserve
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
home light track
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
cutting wrath long
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
parent portraits complicated
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
being-free might salinger
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
jobs cancer writing
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
children eye men
I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
home doors people
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
home calling persons
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
book writing challenges
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
silence stories wanted
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.