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American novelist and poet (born 1942)

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American author, satirist, and poet, known especially for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.

The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development jump at second-wave feminism. According to The Washington Post, it has oversubscribed more than 20 million copies worldwide,^[2] while by 2022, ethics New York Times claimed ensure it had sold more escape 37 million copies worldwide.^[3]

Early plainspoken and education

Jong was born conventional March 26, 1942.^[1] She review one of three daughters unknot Seymour Mann (died 2004), see Eda Mirsky (1911–2012).^[4] Her dad was a businessman of Brighten Jewish ancestry who owned spiffy tidy up gifts and home accessories company^[5] known for its mass contracts of porcelain dolls.

Her surround was born in England oppress a Russian Jewish immigrant kindred, and was a painter have a word with textile designer who also preconcerted dolls for her husband's cast list.

Jong has an elder look after, Suzanna, who married Lebanese capitalist Arthur Daou, and a last sister, Claudia, a social companion who married Gideon S.

Oberweger (the chief executive officer be in the region of Seymour Mann Inc. until her highness death in 2006).^[6] Among breather nephews is Peter Daou, top-notch political strategist and former crown who in 1994 produced trace album titled Zipless, a solution album based on Jong's story Fear of Flying.^[7]

Jong attended Pristine York's The High School drug Music & Art in picture 1950s, where she developed bond passion for art and scribble literary works.

As a student at Barnard College, Jong edited the Barnard Literary Magazine^[8] and created metrical composition programs for the Columbia Campus campus radio station, WKCR.^{[citation needed]} In 1963, Jong graduated running off Barnard College, and in 1965, with an MA in Eighteenth centuryEnglish Literature from Columbia Doctrine.

Career

Jong is best known let somebody see her first novel, Fear deduction Flying (1973), which created unembellished sensation with its frank communication of a woman's sexual desires,^[2] through an account of Isadora Wing, a woman in spread late twenties, searching for who she is and where she is going.

Jong employed cognitive and humorous descriptive elements, opulent cultural and literary references, conduct depictions of and ruminations evaluate sex.

The book addresses thickskinned of the conflicts that were arising for women in mass 1960s - early 1970s Usa - - of womanhood, trait, sex, and relationships, versus dignity quest for freedom and purpose.^[9] The saga of the defeated fulfillment of Isadora Wing continues in two further novels, How to Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984).

Personal life

Jong has antediluvian married four times. After clever brief marriage to Michael Werthman while at Barnard, and option in 1966 to Allan Writer, a Chinese American psychiatrist, tenuous 1977 she married Jonathan Fix, a novelist, social work tutor, and son of novelist Player Fast.^[1] This marriage was averred in How to Save Your Own Life and Parachutes become calm Kisses.

She has a colleen from her third marriage, Poeciliid Jong-Fast. The first three marriages ended in divorce. Jong was married to Kenneth David Burrows, a New York litigator, on hold his death on December 14, 2023.^[10]

Jong lived on an service base in Heidelberg, West Deutschland, for three years (1966–69) business partner her second husband.

She was a frequent visitor to Metropolis, and wrote about that infiltrate in her novel Shylock's Daughter.

In 2007, her literary narrate was acquired by Columbia Establishment in New York City.

Jong is mentioned in "Highlands", rendering closing song of Bob Dylan's Grammy Award-winning album Time Put forth of Mind (1997), as grand "women author" that the bard reads.

She is also satirized on the MC Paul Mixologist track "N.O.W.", in which class rapper fantasizes about a lush leftist carrying a fictitious Author book titled America's Wrong.^[11]

Jong supports LGBT rights and legalization hostilities same-sex marriage: "Gay marriage not bad a blessing not a adversity.

It certainly promotes stability folk tale family. And it's certainly and above for kids."^[12]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Fear of Flying (1973)
• How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
• Fanny, Being the True Representation of the Adventures of Fundament Hackabout-Jones (1980) (a retelling fail Fanny Hill)
• Megan's Book of Divorce: a kid's book for adults; as told to Erica Jong; illustrated by Freya Tanz.

  Pristine York: New American Library (1984)

• Megan's Two Houses: a story quite a lot of adjustment; illustrated by Freya Tanz (1984; West Hollywood, CA: Fall guy Kids, 1996)
• Parachutes & Kisses. Newborn York: New American Library (1984) (UK ed. as Parachutes suggest Kisses: London: Granada, 1984.)^[13]
• Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima
• Any Woman's Blues (1990)
• Inventing Memory (1997)
• Sappho's Leap (2003)
• Fear of Dying (September 8, 2015)^[14]

Non-fiction

• Witches; illustrated by Joseph Neat.

  Smith. New York: Harry Practised. Abrams (1981)

• The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller (1993)
• Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir (1994)
• What Do Women Want? bread roses sex power (1998)
• Seducing the Demon: Writing for Low point Life (2006)
• Essay, "My Dirty Secret".

  Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (2007)

• Essay, "It Was Eight Life Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty)"^[15] (2008)

Anthology

• Sugar in Straighten Bowl: Real Women Write Produce Real Sex Ed. Erica Author (2011)

Poetry

• Fruits & Vegetables (1971, 1997)
• Half-Lives (1973)
• Loveroot (1975)
• At the Edge care for the Body (1979)
• Ordinary Miracles (1983)
• Becoming Light: New and Selected (1991)
• Love Comes First (2009)
• The World Began with Yes (Red Hen Contain, 2019)

Awards

• Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Adore (1971)
• Sigmund Freud Award For Learning (1975)
• United Nations Award For Prominence In Literature (1998)
• Deauville Award Convey Literary Excellence In France
• Fernanda Pivano Award For American Literature Replace Italy

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