Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Love is still the only subject that matters. The crimp in my heart that brought me to you, & our eyes fixed on each other at dinner, The snow breaking under our boots like skin, The crystal, the clouds, the water lapping the rocks, It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty) (2008) Seducing the Demon: writing for my life (2006)īad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave essay, "My Dirty Secret" (2007) What Do Women Want? bread roses sex power (1998) The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller (1993) Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima as Parachutes and Kisses: London: Granada, 1984.) New York: New American Library (1984) (UK ed. Megan's Two Houses: a story of adjustment illustrated by Freya Tanz (1984 West Hollywood, CA: Dove Kids, 1996) Megan's Book of Divorce: a kid's book for adults as told to Erica Jong illustrated by Freya Tanz. United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature (1998)ĭeauville Award For Literary Excellence In Franceįanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980) (a retelling of Fanny Hill) Sigmund Freud Award For Literature (1975) Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize (1971)
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In 2007, her literary archive was acquired by Columbia University in New York City. Jong is mentioned in the Bob Dylan song "Highlands." She was a frequent visitor to Venice, and wrote about that city in her novel, Shylock's Daughter. Jong lived for three years, 1966–69, in Heidelberg, Germany, with her second husband, while he was stationed at an army base there. In the late 1990s Jong wrote an article about her current marriage in the magazine Talk. Jong is now married to Kenneth David Burrows, a New York litigation attorney. She has a daughter from her third marriage, Molly Jong-Fast.
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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). Her first two marriages, to college sweetheart Michael Werthman and to Allan Jong, a Chinese American psychiatrist, share many similarities to those of the narrator described in Fear of Flying. Among her nephews is Peter Daou, who writes "The Daou Report" for and was one-half of the dance-music group The Daou. Oberweger (the chief executive officer of Seymour Mann Inc. Jong has an elder sister, Suzanna, who married Lebanese businessman Arthur Daou, and a younger sister, Claudia, a social worker who married Gideon S. Born in England of a Russian immigrant family, her mother, Eda Mirsky (born 1911), was a painter and textile designer who also designed dolls for her husband's company.
She is the middle daughter of Seymour Mann (né Nathan Weisman, died 2004), a drummer turned businessman of Polish Jewish ancestry who owned a gifts and home accessories company known as "one of the world's most acclaimed makers of collectible porcelain dolls". Jong was born and grew up in New York City.
The book tries to answer the many conflicts arising in women in today's world, of womanhood, femininity, love, one's quest for freedom and purpose. It contains many psychological, humorous, descriptive elements, and rich cultural and literary references. Although it contains many sexual elements, the book is mainly the account of a young, hypersensitive woman, in her late twenties, trying to find who she is and where she is going. in 18th century English Literature from Columbia University (1965), Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires.
Erica Jong is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.Ī 1963 graduate of Barnard College, and with an M.A.
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