Editing Joyce Maynard (section)

==Journalism==
After moving out of Salinger's house in 1973, Maynard bought a house in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.<ref name="Salerno & Shields" /> From 1973 to 1975, she contributed commentaries to a series called ''Spectrum'' on [[CBS Radio]]. In 1975, she joined the staff of ''[[The New York Times]]'' as a general assignment reporter and [[Feature story|feature writer]]. She left ''The New York Times'' in 1977 when she married Steve Bethel. They moved to New Hampshire and had three children, Audrey, Charlie, and [[Wilson Bethel|Wilson]].

From 1984 to 1990, Maynard wrote the weekly syndicated column "Domestic Affairs", dealing with marriage, parenthood, and family life. She worked as book reviewer and columnist for ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)|Mademoiselle]]'' and ''[[Harrowsmith Country Life|Harrowsmith]]'' magazine. In 1989, when Maynard's marriage ended, more than half the newspapers that ran her "Domestic Affairs" column dropped it.

In 1986, Maynard helped lead the opposition to the construction of the nation's first high-level nuclear waste dump in New Hampshire, with ground zero in Hillsborough, where she lived with her family. Maynard described this campaign in a May 1986 ''New York Times'' cover story.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maynard |first=Joyce |date=1986-05-11 |title=THE STORY OF A TOWN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/magazine/the-story-of-a-town.html |access-date=2024-07-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She wrote, "The US Department of Energy named part of New Hampshire as a candidate for the first high-level nuclear waste 'repository' (i.e., DUMP) on the planet." {{Clarify span|The government was planning to use technology never before tried and totally unproven as safe, to bury decades-worth of high-level nuclear waste in New Hampshire granite, and to create an entire highway and train system into the state to bring the extraordinarily dangerous material with a half life of a million years.|Is this a quote from Maynard?|date=July 2024}} Maynard and others rallied at town meetings and convoyed to Concord, and later that year, a law was passed prohibiting a nuclear waste dump in New Hampshire.