Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry, and particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
On reading: When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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On strategy: Surviving meant being born over and over.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 166, pages 235-242. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2008.
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One daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, from marriage to Jonathan Fast.
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Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1984.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 203-210. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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