When I saw the name Joyce Maynard, my mind immediately flashed back to her first book (published in 1973!) Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, and its iconic cover of her sitting barefoot on a rock with one leg pulled up. I remember knowing at that time about the connection between her and Salinger, but didn't know that she'd later written a memoir detailing that relationship, and to be honest didn't know until now that she had continued to write at all, let alone written many novels! So "Have I read any of her other work?" No, but I'll be looking for her now. Thanks for the tip and the trip down memory lane 😉 https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Chronicle-Growing-Sixties/dp/0595269389
Terri, what I would give for your memory. You might also recall her New York Times Magazine cover story from that era. That's the piece that caught Salinger's attention. It might be my imagination, or I might have a recollection of it hanging around in that Sunday's paper in my childhood home. Regardless, I hope you like Maynard's more recent work. I like both her fiction and her memoirs. Thanks so much for reading and commenting.
When I saw the name Joyce Maynard, my mind immediately flashed back to her first book (published in 1973!) Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, and its iconic cover of her sitting barefoot on a rock with one leg pulled up. I remember knowing at that time about the connection between her and Salinger, but didn't know that she'd later written a memoir detailing that relationship, and to be honest didn't know until now that she had continued to write at all, let alone written many novels! So "Have I read any of her other work?" No, but I'll be looking for her now. Thanks for the tip and the trip down memory lane 😉 https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Chronicle-Growing-Sixties/dp/0595269389
Terri, what I would give for your memory. You might also recall her New York Times Magazine cover story from that era. That's the piece that caught Salinger's attention. It might be my imagination, or I might have a recollection of it hanging around in that Sunday's paper in my childhood home. Regardless, I hope you like Maynard's more recent work. I like both her fiction and her memoirs. Thanks so much for reading and commenting.