Editing Joyce Maynard (section)

==Early life==
Maynard was born in [[Durham, New Hampshire]], to Fredelle (née Bruser), a journalist, writer, and English teacher, and Max Maynard, a painter and professor of English at the [[University of New Hampshire]] (and brother of theologian [[Theodore Maynard]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Fredelle Maynard: Archives & Special Collections : Libraries : University of Manitoba|url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/maynard.shtml|website=www.umanitoba.ca|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110225048/http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/maynard.shtml|archive-date=January 10, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Salerno & Shields">{{cite book|last1=Salerno|first1=Shane|last2=Shields|first2=David|title=Salinger|url=https://archive.org/details/salinger0000shie|url-access=registration|date=2013|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York, NY [etc.]|isbn=9781476744834|edition=First Simon & Schuster hardcover}}</ref> Her father was born in India to English missionary parents and later moved to Canada; her mother was born in [[Saskatchewan]] to Jewish immigrants from Russia.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Maynard|first1=Joyce|title=At Home in the World|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/maynard-home.html|website=www.nytimes.com|access-date=February 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Maynard|first1=Joyce|title=Parenting - A Mother's Days: My Mother at Fifty|url=http://www.joycemaynard.com/columns-articles/parenting-hm-my-mother-at-50.shtml|website=www.joycemaynard.com|access-date=February 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110225915/http://www.joycemaynard.com/columns-articles/parenting-hm-my-mother-at-50.shtml|archive-date=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Maynard|first1=Joyce|title=A Letter from Author Joyce Maynard|url=http://www.joycemaynard.com/letter/06/092206.shtml|website=www.joycemaynard.com|date=September 22, 2006|access-date=February 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110225917/http://www.joycemaynard.com/letter/06/092206.shtml|archive-date=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Maynard has an older sister, Rona.

Maynard attended the [[Oyster River Cooperative School District|Oyster River school district]] and [[Phillips Exeter Academy]]. She won [[Alliance for Young Artists & Writers|Scholastic Art and Writing Awards]] in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971. In her teens, she wrote regularly for ''[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]'' magazine. She entered [[Yale University]] in 1971 and sent a collection of her writings to the editors of ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]''. They asked her to write an article about growing up in the 1960s, which was published under the title "An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/maynard-mag.html|title=An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Life|last=Maynard|first=Joyce|date=23 April 1973|website=archive.nytimes.com|access-date=2018-03-25}}</ref> in the magazine's April 23, 1972, issue. After the article was published, Maynard received a letter from fiction writer [[J. D. Salinger]], then 53 years old, who complimented her writing and warned her of the dangers of publicity.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1998/09/affair-with-salinger-199809 | title=Salinger in Love | website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] | date=September 1998 }}</ref>