# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joyce-maynard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:59:27.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joyce-maynard"
name: "Joyce Maynard"
slug: "joyce-maynard"
description: "Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted by Gus Van Sant into the film To Die For in 1995. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with J. D. Salinger."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joyce_maynard_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.173666288308739
  historical:           12.36775066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "joycemaynard"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562767/"
    handle:    "nm0562767"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joycemaynard.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Joyce Maynard"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joyce Maynard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump