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In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine about life in the sixties. Among the many letters of praise, offers for writing assignments, and request for interviews was a one-page letter from the famously reclusive author, J.D. Salinger.At Home in the World is the story of a girl who loved and lived with J.D. Salinger, and the woman she became. A crucial turning point in Joyce...

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Jema Holt, a young woman born as an heiress to a shipyard and tragically left to be raised by her aunt and uncle is lost in the sadness that seems to follow her. Until, that is, she meets the Mitchell's who bring not only love into her dark world, but also an introduction to a relationship unlike any she had ever known. Set in a small, coastal town with generations of residents, set in their ways, this is a novel of hope, forgiveness, and the ...

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This coming-of-age memoir, which outraged some and inspired others when first released in 1998, goes beyond Maynard's writing life to explore the heartbreaks and triumphs of her life growing up with brilliant parents, who also had faults, as well as her short romance at age 18 with J.D. Salinger, a subsequent failed marriage, and her struggle to rebuild at mid-life.

Een verhaal van liefde, brandende passie, schrijnende puberteit en verwoestend verraad. In een terugblik neemt Joyce Maynard de lezer mee naar de gebeurtenissen van een lang, heet en allesbepalend weekend, gezien door de ogen van een dertienjarige jongen en de man tot wie hij zal uitgroeien. Een lang weekend van Joyce Maynard is verfilmd als Labor Day, met Oscar-winnares Kate Winslet (Titanic, The Reader), Josh Brolin (No Country for old Men...

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From the acclaimed author of "The Usual Rules" comes this heartbreaking yet uplifting portrait of a 14-year-old Montana boy. As his family falls apart, only the promise of winning his school's science fair holds any hope of happiness for him.

From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.