Since publishing her grounding-breaking first novel, Fear of Flying in 1973, best-selling American feminist writer Erica Jong (born 1942) has published fiction, collections of poetry, and countless ar...
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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 Mu...
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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 Yo...
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Her first novel, Fear of Flying , gained worldwide fame for Erica Jong as a writer about women's literary and sexual adventures. But the reputation of Fear of Flying has overshadowed Jong's achievemen...
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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 o...
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Erica Mann Jong
Erica Jong
