The Washington Post, November 22nd, 1997
Joyce Maynard, the novelist and journalist whose first love was J.D. Salinger, plans to break a 25-year silence about her nine-month relationship with the reclusive author by writing about it in a memoir. Salinger, who lives in Cornish, N.H., wrote to Maynard in the spring of 1972 after reading a magazine article the Yale freshman had written that attracted wide attention. The article, "An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life," was accompanied by her photograph. She visited Salinger, then 53, in Cornish that summer and stayed through a harsh winter until the couple split in the spring. Maynard, now ...
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