if you are enjoying the festival of books, go on to our website and become a friend of the festival immediately after you leave today. thank you for being here. i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60 s, about 40 years ago i remember mark te rudd political action at columbi columbia. i remember reading joyce maynard s, and 18 year old looks back on life on the front pagel of the new york times in 1972. and by the dead men, mark the todd deadman with wendy has been my friend from more than 20 years. so i w so, i would like to just briefly introduce the panelists and the, we will get started. start joyce, immediately to my left, m grew up in new hampshire and nos lives in marin county.ame o her books that came out of that magazine piece, looking i haveis this book back then. this has been with me of all time. time and joyce has written a second memoir called at home in the world, which was written in 1998.dd in the middle of our