Joyce Maynard first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life,” when she was a freshman at Yale. Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a syndicated newspaper columnist whose “Domestic Affairs” column appeared in more than 50 newspapers nationwide, and a regular contributor to NPR and national magazines . Maynard is the author of 15 books, her latest, The Best of Us, which tells the story of discovering strength against great loss.
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