Erica Jong, American poet and novelist, was born in 1942 in New York City where she grew up on the Upper West Side. Like the protagonist of her novels, Isadora Wing, she attended the High School of Music and Art, Barnard College, and the Writing...

Erica Jong was born in New York City to Seymour and Eda Mirsky Mann. She took a B.A. from Barnard College in 1963 and an M.A. from Columbia in 1965. She taught English at the City University of New York in 1964-1965 and in 1969-1970; between 1967 and...

Erica Jong is primarily known for her six best-selling novels: Fear of Flying (1973), with twelve and a half million copies in print; How to Save Your Own Life (1977); Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980);...

Erica Jong's first novel, Fear of Flying (1973), made her one of the central figures of the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Her frank and explicit depictions of women's sexual desire shocked the world and gained her the praise of everyone...

Erica Jong (née Mann, born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and...

SEDUCING THE DEMON Writing for My Life By Erica Jong Tarcher/Penguin. 279 pp. $22.95 As a writer, Erica Jong has always been endearing and fascinating -- in almost equal parts. Her first novel, "Fear of Flying," with its intrepid, headstrong...

WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? Bread, Roses, Sex, Power By Erica Jong HarperCollins. 202 pp. $25 By Carolyn See, a writer whose reviews appear on Fridays in the Style section. This is a touching but highly schizophrenic collection of essays. There are two Erica...

Eighty-one years since she moved to New York City to study acting, 50 years since her canonical show ended and 18 years since she died, Lucille Ball has bought a million-dollar condo. Her eponymous trust closed last month on a two-bedroom, 1,014-square-foot apartment at the...

Today is Monday, March 26, the 85th day of 2007. There are 280 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.On this...

Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I'm doing at present. I see it in embryonic stages early on, and I begin to see what I thought were simply notes, because they didn't resemble my earlier work, were, actually in early form, the work that I have now begun to do … the new work, in other words. I didn't recognize it at first. I thought it was failed old w...

["Fanny"] is a literary prodigy. It reaches back to an earlier century for its very life: language, spirit and shape…. Miss Jong is reported to have begun her book by wondering: What if Tom Jones had been a woman? The question is irresistible. It made me wonder whether to begin this review with an immovable answer: Erica Jong is not Henry Fielding. But that answer will not do. The fearful collision of these novelists has resulted, not in an impasse, but in an explosion, a surge of liter...

Erica Jong is too fine a writer to care much about the accidental categories of the activists, categories that are a product of crippled imaginations. If Ms. Jong wrote a novel with a male protagonist-narrator, I would pick it up with respect and in the expectation of entertainment and even of enlightenment…. [She] has extrapolated from her own life and her own fear an archetype that has had immense appeal, not only with the MAF [Modern American Female], but also with the Modern European Woman. In he...