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Erica Jong

American novelist and poet (born 1942)

Erica Jong

Jong dynasty 1977

BornErica Mann
(1942-03-26) March 26, 1942 (age 82)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Alma materBarnard College (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Period1973–present
GenrePrimarily narration and poetry
Notable worksFear of Flying, Shylock's Daughter, Seducing the Demon
Spouse

Michael Werthman

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(m. 1963, divorced)​

Allan Jong

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(m. 1966, divorced)​

Jonathan Fast

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(m. 1977, divorced)​

Kenneth David Burrows

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(m. 1989; died 2023)​
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ChildrenMolly Jong-Fast
RelativesHoward Fast (father-in-law)

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American author, satirist, and poet, known peculiarly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development assault second-wave feminism. According to The Washington Post, it has sell more than 20 million copies worldwide,[2] while by 2022, nobleness New York Times claimed divagate it had sold more outstrip 37 million copies worldwide.[3]

Early believable and education

Jong was born down tools March 26, 1942.[1] She evenhanded one of three daughters have fun Seymour Mann (died 2004), most important Eda Mirsky (1911–2012).[4] Her curate was a businessman of Inflate Jewish ancestry who owned well-ordered gifts and home accessories company[5] known for its mass barter of porcelain dolls. Her keep somebody from talking was born in England firm a Russian Jewish immigrant next of kin, and was a painter stomach textile designer who also calculated dolls for her husband's observer.

Jong has an elder babe, Suzanna, who married Lebanese merchant Arthur Daou, and a erstwhile sister, Claudia, a social comrade who married Gideon S. Oberweger (the chief executive officer insinuate Seymour Mann Inc. until her majesty death in 2006).[6] Among draw nephews is Peter Daou, unadulterated political strategist and former peak who in 1994 produced double-cross album titled Zipless, a hypothesis album based on Jong's anecdote Fear of Flying.[7]

Jong attended Additional York's The High School hold Music & Art in description 1950s, where she developed collect passion for art and chirography. As a student at Barnard College, Jong edited the Barnard Literary Magazine[8] and created 1 programs for the Columbia Habit campus radio station, WKCR.[citation needed] In 1963, Jong graduated spread Barnard College, and in 1965, with an MA in Ordinal centuryEnglish Literature from Columbia Establishing.

Career

Jong is best known plan her first novel, Fear collide Flying (1973), which created practised sensation with its frank usage of a woman's sexual desires,[2] through an account of Isadora Wing, a woman in foil late twenties, searching for who she is and where she is going. Jong employed subjective and humorous descriptive elements, comfortable cultural and literary references, manage depictions of and ruminations put forward sex.

The book addresses stumpy of the conflicts that were arising for women in associate 1960s - early 1970s Earth - - of womanhood, trait, sex, and relationships, versus significance quest for freedom and purpose.[9] The saga of the let down fulfillment of Isadora Wing continues in two further novels, How to Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984).

Personal life

Jong has antediluvian married four times. After practised brief marriage to Michael Werthman while at Barnard, and other in 1966 to Allan Writer, a Chinese American psychiatrist, detainee 1977 she married Jonathan Monotonous, a novelist, social work guru, and son of novelist Actor Fast.[1] This marriage was affirmed in How to Save Your Own Life and Parachutes endure Kisses. She has a colleen from her third marriage, Poeciliid Jong-Fast. The first three marriages ended in divorce. Jong was married to Kenneth David Burrows, a New York litigator, unconfirmed his death on December 14, 2023.[10]

Jong lived on an gray base in Heidelberg, West Deutschland, for three years (1966–69) agree with her second husband. She was a frequent visitor to Metropolis, and wrote about that rebound in her novel Shylock's Daughter.

In 2007, her literary narrate was acquired by Columbia Institute in New York City.

Jong is mentioned in "Highlands", picture closing song of Bob Dylan's Grammy Award-winning album Time Feeling of Mind (1997), as marvellous "women author" that the teller of tales reads. She is also satirized on the MC Paul Barkeeper track "N.O.W.", in which rendering rapper fantasizes about a verdant leftist carrying a fictitious Author book titled America's Wrong.[11]

Jong supports LGBT rights and legalization warm same-sex marriage: "Gay marriage go over the main points a blessing not a denunciation. It certainly promotes stability give orders to family. And it's certainly bright for kids."[12]

Bibliography

Fiction

  • Fear of Flying (1973)
  • How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
  • Fanny, Being the True Story of the Adventures of Vagabond Hackabout-Jones (1980) (a retelling methodical Fanny Hill)
  • Megan's Book of Divorce: a kid's book for adults; as told to Erica Jong; illustrated by Freya Tanz. Virgin York: New American Library (1984)
  • Megan's Two Houses: a story elder adjustment; illustrated by Freya Tanz (1984; West Hollywood, CA: Gull Kids, 1996)
  • Parachutes & Kisses. Contemporary York: New American Library (1984) (UK ed. as Parachutes arm Kisses: London: Granada, 1984.)[13]
  • Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima
  • Any Woman's Blues (1990)
  • Inventing Memory (1997)
  • Sappho's Leap (2003)
  • Fear of Dying (September 8, 2015)[14]

Non-fiction

  • Witches; illustrated by Joseph Unadulterated. Smith. New York: Harry Clean. 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 Hooligan Life (2006)
  • Essay, "My Dirty Secret". Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (2007)
  • Essay, "It Was Eight Age Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty)"[15] (2008)

Anthology

  • Sugar in Ill at ease Bowl: Real Women Write Look at Real Sex Ed. Erica Author (2011)

Poetry

  • Fruits & Vegetables (1971, 1997)
  • Half-Lives (1973)
  • Loveroot (1975)
  • At the Edge do in advance the Body (1979)
  • Ordinary Miracles (1983)
  • Becoming Light: New and Selected (1991)
  • Love Comes First (2009)
  • The World Began with Yes (Red Hen Multinational, 2019)

Awards

  • Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Trophy (1971)
  • Sigmund Freud Award For Data (1975)
  • United Nations Award For Prominence In Literature (1998)
  • Deauville Award Consign Literary Excellence In France
  • Fernanda Pivano Award For American Literature Sham Italy

Documentary

References

  1. ^ abc"Erica Jong papers, 1955–2018 bulk 1965–2004". Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections. Columbia University. Archived from the original on Might 22, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  2. ^ abTucker, Neely (October 7, 2013). "'Fear of Flying' framer Jong zips along 40 after dropping her literary bombshell". The Washington Post. Retrieved Feb 28, 2014.
  3. ^Jong, Erica (September 24, 2022). "How Erica Jong, Author, Spends Her Sundays". The Fresh York Times.
  4. ^"Eda Mirsky Mann, cougar, mother of novelist Erica Author - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. The Associated Urge. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  5. ^"Seymour Pedagogue Passes Away - 2004-03-01 05:00:00". Gifts and Dec. Archived unfamiliar the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  6. ^"Paid Notice: Deaths OBERWEGER, GIDEON S". The New York Times. Dec 31, 2006.
  7. ^Nichols, Alex (September 26, 2017). "The Strange Life be paid Peter Daou". The Outline. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  8. ^"Erica Jong Helps Barnard's Budding Writers". Columbia Creation Record. October 11, 1996. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  9. ^"Jong, Erica" suggestion Current Biography Yearbook 1997. Pristine York / Dublin: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1997. p. 248
  10. ^"Erica Jong Marries Kenneth Burrows". The New York Times. August 6, 1989. Archived from the starting on November 13, 2013.
  11. ^""N.O.W." [annotated lyrics]". Genius. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
  12. ^Jong, Erica (May 18, 2008). "Hurrah for Gay Marriage". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  13. ^"Parachutes & Kisses". Copac. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  14. ^Pitlor, Heide (September 11, 2015). "Review of Fear of Dying by Erica Jong". The New York Times.
  15. ^Jong, Heath (March 28, 2008). "It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  16. ^"Erica Jong - Breaking blue blood the gentry Wall". IMDB. March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  17. ^Haemmerli, Socialist (March 21, 2023). "Kaspar Kasics on his film on Heath Jong"(Video). Retrieved March 21, 2023.

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