Recent Years
Maynard has lived in Mill Valley, California since 1996. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Maine and now runs writing workshops at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. She frequently performs as a storyteller with The Moth in New York City.
In January 2010, Maynard came into the spotlight when J. D. Salinger died aged 91. She chose not to comment to the press on the occasion of Salinger’s death. In the years since the publication of At Home in the World, other women have come forward detailing correspondence they had with Salinger when they were young, causing a reassessment of earlier charges that Maynard had unfairly betrayed the writer’s privacy.
In January, 2010, Joyce Maynard adopted six and eleven year old sisters from Ethiopia. On April 4, 2012, Maynard announced that she had relinquished adoption of the girls in April 2011, and no longer is in contact with them.
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