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At home in the world : a memoir / Joyce Maynard.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250046440
- ISBN: 9781250046444
- Physical Description: xvii, 375 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: Second Picador Paperback Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "With a new preface"--Cover. |
| Summary, etc.: | The author describes her love affair with reclusive author J.D. Salinger, which began at the age of eighteen, discussing her relationship with Salinger and her troubled but creative youth. |
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| Subject: | Maynard, Joyce, 1953- Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010 > Relations with women. Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
At Home in the World : A Memoir
Joyce Maynard was born on November 5, 1953. She first came to national attention in 1973 with the publication of her New York Times cover story An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life, which she wrote while a freshman at Yale University. Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and a regular contributor to NPR. Her writing have also been published in numerous magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine; Newsweek; The New York Times Magazine; Forbes; Salon; San Francisco Magazine; and USA Weekly. She has written both fiction and nonfiction works including The Usual Rules, The Cloud Chamber, Internal Combustion, After Her, and her memoirs Looking Back and At Home in the World. Maynard's memoirs include details about her relationship with J. D. Salinger when she was 18 years old and attending Yale University. To Die For was adapted into a movie starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin Phoenix and Labor Day was adapted into a movie starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. (Bowker Author Biography)
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