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Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard
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Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard started her writing career when she was fourteen. Her books include the memoirs At Home in the World and Looking Back and the novels To Die For (which was made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman) and, most recently, The Usual Rules (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults). The mother of three grown children, she lives in northern California. Visit her Web site at www.joycemaynard.com.

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The Cloud Chamber has won an award
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The Cloud Chamber has won an award
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The Cloud Chamber has won an award
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The Cloud Chamber has won an award
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U-T San Diego, May 11, 2012
...Also see Karen BaluyotJob: Adult services librarian, Vista branch, San Diego County Library“Labor Day” by Joyce Maynard She recommends: “Labor Day” by Joyce Maynard (William Morrow, 2009; 244 pages; $24.99)Why? Thirteen-year-old Henry lives with...
Guardian.co.uk, April 27, 2012
...A new app lets you interact with the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, Joyce Maynard's To Die For arrives as an ebook and Scottish crime writers reveal their secrets A new take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Profile Books, £2.99) is the...
Inside Bay Area, March 12, 2012
...For writer and guest literary star Joyce Maynard, the third annual Walnut Creek Library Gala is a potential fashion show."I like dinner and I like to dress up," the former New York Times reporter and...
DNA India, March 10, 2012
...Of other relationships with those much younger, there’s not much said here, barring a passing reference to Joyce Maynard, whose side of the relationship can be found in her controversial, not-so-flattering recollection, At Home In The World. The...
Live-PR.com, January 28, 2012
...in the Boston, MA area starting in June, 2012. "Labor Day" is based on the novel by author Joyce Maynard and tells the story of depressed, single mom Adele (Kate Winslet) and her son Henry, who offer a wounded, fearsome man (Josh Brolin) a ride. As...
Guardian.co.uk, January 19, 2012
...bathos . All worried at the compatibility of happiness and domesticity. Next is Labor Day, his own script of Joyce Maynard 's bestseller about a single mother (Kate Winslet) who takes in an outlaw (Josh Brolin). A female lead, then, but no Cody. And...
Hollywood Stock Exchange, March 3, 2012
...Jason Reitman will adapt and direct the drama Labor Day based on Joyce Maynard’s novel. A lonely young boy and his divorced mother are held captive by a convict over a humid Labor Day weekend in a small New Hampshire town. The...
Hollywood Stock Exchange, March 2, 2012
...Jason Reitman will adapt and direct the drama Labor Day based on Joyce Maynard’s novel. A lonely young boy and his divorced mother are held captive by a convict over a humid Labor Day weekend in a small New Hampshire town. The...
Hollywood Stock Exchange, March 2, 2012
...Jason Reitman will adapt and direct the drama Labor Day based on Joyce Maynard’s novel. A lonely young boy and his divorced mother are held captive by a convict over a humid Labor Day weekend in a small New Hampshire town. The...
Hollywood Stock Exchange, February 26, 2012
...Jason Reitman will adapt and direct the drama Labor Day based on Joyce Maynard’s novel. A lonely young boy and his divorced mother are held captive by a convict over a humid Labor Day weekend in a small New Hampshire town. The...
Orange County Register, February 24, 2012
...event. They are Edgar Award winner Laurie R. King, multi-disciplined writer Delia Ephron, former New York Times columnist Joyce Maynard, Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Nina Revoyr, memoirist Mindy Greenstein, mystery writer Tammy Kaehler, young...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, February 21, 2012
...our control.” Reviews for “Other Waters” have been enthusiastic. “Beguiling, splendid, enthralling,” novelist and critic Katharine Weber wrote. Joyce Maynard, author of “To Die For,” said: “Writing with assurance and an unblinking eye for...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, February 21, 2012
...our control.” Reviews for “Other Waters” have been enthusiastic. “Beguiling, splendid, enthralling,” novelist and critic Katharine Weber wrote. Joyce Maynard, author of “To Die For,” said: “Writing with assurance and an unblinking eye for...