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When it was initially printed in 1998, At Home in the World tripped a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence involving her marriage - at years 18 - with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive writer of The Catcher in the Rye, then years 53, who had read a tale she published for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and directed her a notice that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was concurrently reviled and cheered. With what some have seen as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her arriving of age within an alcoholic family, her mother's desire to mold her into a copy writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she remaining Yale to live with Salinger, and her battle to reclaim her sense of do it yourself in the crushing aftermath of his termination of her not long after her 19th birthday. A quarter of a hundred years later - having turn into a writer, survived the finish of her relationship and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old princess of her own - Maynard will pay a trip to the man who broke her center. The storyline she explains to - of the lady she was and the girl she became - is at once devastating, motivating, and triumphant. Picture by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation
