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Joyce Maynard

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The Resume

    (November 5, 1953- )
    Born in Durham, New Hampshire
    Birth name was Daphne Joyce Maynard
    Wrote 'An 18 Year Old Looks Back on Life' for the New York Times magazine (1972)
    Wrote the novels 'To Die For' (1992), 'The Usual Rules' (2003) and 'The Cloud Chamber' (2005)
    Wrote the memoirs 'Looking Back' (1973) and 'At Home in the World' (1998)

Why she might be annoying:

    At 18, she dropped out of college to live with 53-year-old J. D. Salinger.
    She is better known for her affair with Salinger than her writing.
    She said 'Salinger was the closest thing I had to religion.'
    She upset many Salinger fans by discussing their relationship in 'At Home in the World' and by auctioning his letters to her (1999).
    Maureen Dowd compared her to Monica Lewinskly, calling them both 'leech women.'
    She posed for a 'Vanity Fair' story holding her removed breast implants.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Although she was accused of using Salinger, he was the one who initiated the relationship.
    She said she would have preferred donating Salinger's letters to a library, but she had to sell them for financial reasons.
    Software developer Peter Norton bought the letters and returned them to Salinger.
    She was one of the first authors to use the internet to regularly communicate with her readers.
    Asked how she would feel if Salinger wrote about their affair, she said 'I'd really be fascinated by such a book. I'd be the first one to buy it.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 34 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 68.97% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 46 Votes: 76.09% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 68 Votes: 72.06% Annoying