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 Division...

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 196...

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); Parac...

ENDLESS THINGS A Novel By John Crowley Small Beer. 341 pp. $24John Crowley's Endless Things is the fourth and last installment in a vast, intricate series of novels collectively entitled "Aegypt." The series (which is really one long novel) began in...

The three buildings on Wisconsin Avenue make an unlikely trio. Occupied by Fannie Mae, the giant home mortgage company, they differ almost dramatically from each other. But by their very differences they encompass much of Washington's postwar architectural history. Each in its way is...