Over her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir "At Home in the World" and the novels "To Die For" and "Labor Day," both adapted for film. Maynard's newest novel, "The Bird Hotel," was published in May, 2023. "How the Light Gets In," the sequel to her novel, "Count the Ways"—winner of the Grand Prize for an American novel published in France and named an Amazon Best Book in 2021—will be published in summer, 2024.
Maynard is a fellow of Macdowell and Yaddo. Every winter for over two decades, she has led the Lake Atitlan Memoir workshop, Write by the Lake, in Guatemala.
"The Bird Hotel" is a mystery at its center filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism. "The Bird Hotel" is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world brought to life on the page is rendered from Joyce Maynard's imagination, it is informed by the more than twenty years she has spent time each year in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.
Follow Joyce Maynard on Instagram @therealjoycemaynard and on Facebook @JoyceMaynardAuthor. Her web site is https://www.joycemaynard.com/.
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