Joyce Maynard is making headlines again, this time by auctioning off 14 love letters written to her by J.D. Salinger. The last time she made headlines, it was for writing a book about her love affair with the famously reclusive Salinger. Alex Beam, a college classmate of Maynard’s, wrote an essay for Slate on the sad tale of The Woman Who Mistook Herself for Something Interesting.
A Life of Letters
Joyce Maynard reveals all. Again. And again.
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