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
mother children growing-up
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
tragedy comedy source
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
running keeping-secrets toxic
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
drama doors ordinary
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
stories would-be boundaries
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
running drama writing
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
beautiful art fall
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
giving-up men age
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
home stories redemption
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
silence protect
I continued to protect him with my silence.
responsibility years pleasers
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
levels stories ability
I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.
beautiful peaceful serial-killer
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
thinking opera soap
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.