Editing Joyce Maynard (section)

== Relationship with Salinger and ''At Home in the World''==
In spring 1972, Maynard and Salinger exchanged letters during her freshman year at Yale. By July, Maynard had given up her summer job writing for ''The New York Times'' to move in with Salinger in [[Cornish, New Hampshire]].<ref name="women">{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Paul|title=J. D. Salinger's Women|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/2162/|website=NYMag.com|date=February 9, 1998|access-date=April 12, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Salerno & Shields" /> Salinger and his wife had divorced in 1967. By September 1972, Maynard had given up her scholarship to Yale and dropped out. While living with Salinger for eight months, until March 1973, Maynard wrote her first book, the memoir ''Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties'', which was published in 1973, soon after Maynard and Salinger ended their relationship.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

Maynard withheld information about their relationship until her 1998 memoir ''At Home in the World''. The memoir, an account of her entire life up to that point, is best known for its in-depth retelling of her relationship with Salinger, whom she portrays as a predator. At its publication, many reviewers furiously panned the book, such as Jonathan Yardley from the ''Washington Post,'' who called it "indescribably stupid".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/joyce.shtml|title=Book@arts|access-date=2006-03-24|archive-date=2018-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213002802/http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/joyce.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

During the same year, she auctioned the letters Salinger had written her. Software developer [[Peter Norton]] bought them for $156,500 and returned them to Salinger.<ref name="auction">{{cite web|title=Salinger letters bring $156,500 at auction|url=http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9906/22/salinger.letters/|website=www.cnn.com|access-date=April 12, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Salerno & Shields" />

In 2021, Maynard wrote about the relationship in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]]'' in connection with the TV series ''[[Allen v. Farrow]]'': "I was groomed to be the sexual partner of a narcissist who nearly derailed my life". She went into detail about the other relationships with teenagers Salinger had had at the same time, adding, "When he sent me away less than a year later with words of contempt and disdain, I believed the failure was mine, and that I was no longer worthy of his love or even respect." Of the reception of her memoirs, she wrote, "I was accused of trying to sell books, to make money from my brief and inconsequential connection to a great man", adding, "one writer, [[Cynthia Ozick]]—hardly alone among celebrated authors, weighing in with her condemnation—portrayed me as a person who, in possession of no talent of my own, had attached myself to Salinger to 'suck out' his celebrity."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/04/joyce-maynard-on-chilling-parallels-woody-allen-and-jd-salinger |title="Predatory Men With a Taste for Teenagers" Joyce Maynard on the Chilling Parallels Between Woody Allen and J.D. Salinger |last=Maynard |first=Joyce |date=April 1, 2021 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=June 17, 2021 }}</ref>