Alter | 72 Jahre |
Beruf | Drehbuchautor, Romancier, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 05. November 1953 |
Geburtsort | Durham, New Hampshire, United States |
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Beschreibung | Daphne Joyce Maynard (* 5. November 1953) ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Journalistin. Sie begann ihre Karriere im Journalismus in den 1970er Jahren und schrieb für verschiedene Publikationen, namentlich Seventeen magazine und The New York Times. In den 1980er Jahren steuerte Maynard Beiträge zu Mademoiselle und Harrowsmith bei, während sie gleichzeitig eine Karriere als Romanautorin mit der Veröffentlichung ihres ersten Romans, Baby Love (1981), begann. Ihr zweiter Roman, To Die For (1992), wurde vom Pamela Smart-Mordfall inspiriert und 1995 als gleichnamiger Film adaptiert. Maynard erlangte 1998 große mediale Aufmerksamkeit mit der Veröffentlichung ihrer Autobiografie At Home in the World, die sich mit ihrer Affäre mit J. D. Salinger auseinandersetzt. |
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
