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...

A few years ago, a colleague of mine, Alison, and I learned we shared a belief in the potential for students to use memory to compose personal essays and to view themselves as meaning makers. We met a few times to talk informally about...

The Lower East Side in New York has been the concrete manifestation of Jewish cultural construct in the 1920s and 1930s taken in an American context. The life in the Lower East Side has demonstrated the history in the identity transformation of American Jews...