Erica Jong

porcelain dolls.[4] Her mother was born in England of a

Russian Jewish immigrant family, was a painter and textile designer who also designed dolls for her husbands
company.[5] Jong has an elder sister, Suzanna, who married Lebanese businessman Arthur Daou, and a younger
sister, Claudia, a social worker who married Gideon S.
Oberweger (the chief executive ocer of Seymour Mann
Inc. until his death in 2006).[6] Among her nephews is Peter Daou, who writes The Daou Report for salon.com.

Erica Jong (ne Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an

American author and teacher best known for her ction and poetry, and particularly for her 1973 novel Fear
of Flying. The book became famously controversial for
its attitudes towards female sexuality and gured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.[2]

Jong has been married four times. Her rst two marriages, to college sweetheart Michael Werthman, and
to Allan Jong, a Chinese American psychiatrist, reect
those of the narrator of Fear of Flying. Her third husband was Jonathan Fast, a novelist and social work educator, and son of novelist Howard Fast. This marriage was
described in How to Save Your Own Life and Parachutes
and Kisses. She has a daughter from her third marriage,
Molly Jong-Fast. Jong is now married to Kenneth David
Burrows,[7] a New York litigation attorney. In the late
1990s, Jong wrote an article about her current marriage
in the magazine Talk.

Career

A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an MA (1965)

in 18th century English Literature from Columbia University, Jong is best known for her rst novel, Fear of Flying (1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a womans sexual desires.[2] Although it contains
many sexual elements, the book is mainly the account of
a hypersensitive young woman, in her late twenties, trying
to nd who she is and where she is going. It contains many
psychological, humorous, descriptive elements, and rich
cultural and literary references. The book tries to answer
the many conicts arising in women in late 1960s and
early 1970s America, of womanhood, femininity, love,
ones quest for freedom and purpose.

Jong lived for three years, 196669, in Heidelberg, Germany, with her second husband, on an army base. She
was a frequent visitor to Venice, and wrote about that city
in her novel Shylocks Daughter.
In 2007, her literary archive was acquired by Columbia
University in New York City.

Personal life

Jong is mentioned in the Bob Dylan song Highlands.

Jong supports LGBT rights and legalization of same-sex
marriage and she claims that 'Gay marriage is a blessing
not a curse. It certainly promotes stability and family.
And its certainly good for kids.'[8]

3 Bibliography
3.1 Fiction
Fear of Flying (novel) (1973)
Jennifer Weiner and Erica Jong at the Miami Book Fair International 2013

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of
Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980) (a retelling of Fanny
Hill)

Jong was born and grew up in New York City. She is

the middle daughter of Seymour Mann (n Nathan Weisman, died 2004), and Eda Mirsky (born 1911). Her father was a businessman of Polish Jewish ancestry who
owned a gifts and home accessories company[3] known as
one of the worlds most acclaimed makers of collectible

Megans Book of Divorce: a kids book for adults; as

told to Erica Jong; illustrated by Freya Tanz. New
York: New American Library (1984)
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3 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Megans Two Houses: a story of adjustment; illustrated by Freya Tanz (1984; West Hollywood, CA:
Dove Kids, 1996)
Parachutes & Kisses. New York: New American
Library (1984) (UK ed. as Parachutes and Kisses:
London: Granada, 1984.)[9]
Shylocks Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima
Any Womans Blues (1990)

Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave essay, My Dirty

Secret (2007)
It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like
Eighty)[10] (2008)

3.3 Anthology
Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real
Sex Ed. Erica Jong (2011)

Inventing Memory (1997)

Sapphos Leap (2003)
Fear of Dying (Sept. 8, 2015)

3.4 Poetry
Fruits & Vegetables (1971, 1997)
Half-Lives (1973)
Loveroot (1975)
At the Edge of the Body (1979)
Ordinary Miracles (1983)
Becoming Light: New and Selected (1991)
Love Comes First (2009)

Erica Jong visiting Barnes & Noble in New York.

3.2

Non-ction

Witches; illustrated by Joseph A. Smith. New York:

Harry A. 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 my life (2006)

Erica Jong, Miami 2013

Awards
Poetry Magazines Bess Hokin Prize (1971)
Sigmund Freud Award For Literature (1975)
United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature
(1998)
Deauville Award For Literary Excellence In France
Fernanda Pivano Award For Literary In Italy

References

[1] Erica Jong Marries Kenneth Burrows. The New York

Times. August 6, 1989.
[2] Tucker, Neely (7 October 2013). "Fear of Flying author
Jong zips along 40 years after dropping her literary bombshell. Washington Post. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
[3] Seymour Mann Passes Away - 2004-03-01 05:00:00.
Gifts and Dec. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
[4]
[5] As her granddaughter Molly Jong-Fast has written in her
memoir, Read from Book, Grandma Eda painted owers and children. Grandmas ower paintings were lled
with lavish colors, sensuous shapes, and the hand of her
abused housekeeper, whod been holding the owers since
early the day before. Grandmas ower paintings were the
stu of midwestern hotel room walls. But Grandmas portraits of her children and grandchildren seemed to express
something more than just a love of owers or housekeepers: Grandmas paintings of her family highlighted her distaste for motherhood. See:
[6] Paid Notice: Deaths OBERWEGER, GIDEON S. The
New York Times. December 31, 2006.
[7] Kenneth David Burrows Lawyer Prole on. Martindale.com. 1941-03-26. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
[8] Jong, Erica (May 18, 2008). Hurrah for Gay Marriage.
The Hungton Post. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
[9] "Parachutes & Kisses". Copac. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
[10] Jong, Erica (March 28, 2008). It Was Eight Years Ago
Today (But It Seems Like Eighty)". Hungton Post. Retrieved 2013-10-18.

External links
Ocial website
What this woman wants The Guardian, April 3,
1999. (in-depth interview and prole)
Review of Seducing the Demon at Powells.com
Aging and Sex with Erica Jong October 3, 2007
Erica Jong at the Internet Movie Database

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