Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted into the 1995 film of the same name. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she tells of her affair with J. D. Salinger.

5 November 1953

Born on the same birth day (5 November): Anna Maria van Schurman • Attilio Ariosti • Cecil H. Underwood • Dado Pršo • Douglass North • Ella Wheeler Wilcox • Hasan Askari (writer) • Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire • Joe Dassin • John Harwood (journalist) • Juan Morillo (baseball) • Lavrentis Machairitsas • Louis Rosier • Michael Gaston • Mr. Fastfinger • November 5 • O. J. Mayo • Raymond Loewy • Ricardo Fort • Roy Rogers • Sadae Inoue • Will Durant • William Daniel Phillips • Wim Bleijenberg

Born in the same month (November 1953): Alan Moore • Alex Grey • Christine Pascal • David Sancious • Desiré Wilson • Dominique de Villepin • Fábio Jr. • Graham Eadie • Greg Gibson (wrestler) • Jacques Villeneuve (racing driver, born 1953) • Jeffrey Skilling • Maire Aunaste • Nirmal Selvamony • Shuggie Otis • Steve Bannon • Tarmo Kõuts • Wayne Larkins