Editing Joyce Maynard (section)

== Personal life ==
Maynard married Steve Bethel in 1977 and divorced him in 1989. They had three children together: daughter Audrey, a social worker, and sons Charlie, a DJ/music producer known as Captain Planet, and [[Wilson Bethel|Wilson]], an actor known for ''[[Hart of Dixie]]'', ''[[Daredevil (TV series)|Daredevil]]'', and ''[[All Rise (TV series)|All Rise]]''. After the divorce, Maynard and her children moved to [[Keene, New Hampshire]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Maynard and her sister, Rona, a writer and retired editor of ''[[Chatelaine (magazine)|Chatelaine]]'' magazine, collaborated on an examination of their sisterhood. Rona Maynard's memoir ''My Mother's Daughter'' was published in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} On August 12, 2023, Joyce and Rona Maynard shared the stage for a premiere event, "The Maynard Sisters In Conversation", at The Toadstool Bookshop in Keene.

Maynard has written about her experience of an international adoption and disruption, and has served as an advocate and supporter for adoptive families and children experiencing challenges related to international adoption.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

On July 6, 2013, she married lawyer Jim Barringer.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brady|first1=Lois Smith|title=Just the Beginning of Their Growing Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/fashion/weddings/just-the-beginning-of-their-growing-time.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 14, 2014|date=26 July 2013}}</ref> Barringer died on June 16, 2016, of pancreatic cancer, 19 months after his diagnosis.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Maynard|first1=Joyce|title=Jim barringer Death|url=http://www.joycemaynard.com/Joyce_Maynard/WELCOME_files/Jim%20barringer%20Death.pdf|website=www.joycemaynard.com|access-date=March 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305194252/http://www.joycemaynard.com/Joyce_Maynard/WELCOME_files/Jim%20barringer%20Death.pdf|archive-date=March 5, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Their relationship and his death is the subject of her 2017 memoir <nowiki/>''The Best of Us''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Best-of-Us-by-Joyce-Maynard-12164718.php|title='The Best of Us,' by Joyce Maynard|date=31 August 2017}}</ref>

Maynard returned to Yale as a sophomore in 2018 to complete her undergraduate education.<ref>Eren Orbey, "Joyce Maynard's Second Chances", ''The New Yorker'', [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/joyce-maynards-second-chances February 8, 2019]</ref> During the pandemic, she left Yale again, calling herself a "two-time dropout". She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.