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Erica Jong (née Mann, born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and educator. March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ...
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Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College, Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (published in 1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires. Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ...
A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...
Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong, which became famous for its then-controversial attitudes towards feminism and female sexuality. ...
This article is about the issues and phenomena pertaining to sexual function and behavior of human females. ...
Jong wrote Fear of Flying in the first person, and her main character suffers from the fear of flying in more than one way, including the literal one. As her airline flight is taking off from New York on its way to Vienna, Austria, she says, "My fingers (and toes) turn to ice, my stomach leaps upward into my rib cage, the temperature in the tip of my nose drops to the same level as the temperature in my fingers, my nipples stand up and salute the inside of my bra (or in this case, dress--since I'm not wearing a bra)..." She created a new type of heroine, that used an affair as a means to self-discovery, breaking the boundaries of the traditional narratives that used affairs as a consequence to disaster. This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ...
Personal life Jong grew up in New York City, the middle daughter of Seymour Mann (né Samuel Weisman), a Polish Jewish musician, and his wife, the former Eda Mirsky, a painter and textile designer whose family immigrated to the United States from Russia. She has an elder sister, Suzanna, who married a Lebanese businessman, Arthur Daou, and a younger sister, Claudia, who married Gideon Oberweger. Among her nephews is Peter Daou, who writes "The Daou Report" for salon.com and who was one-half of the dance-music group The Daou. Screenshot of Salon. ...
The Daou is a New York-based dance music duo consisting of husband-and-wife Peter and Vanessa Daou. ...
Jong has been married four times. Her first two marriages, to college sweetheart Michael Werthman and to Allan Jong, a Chinese-American psychiatrist, are described in 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 is presently married to Ken Burrows, a New York divorce lawyer. Her daughter from her third marriage, Molly Jong-Fast, has published a novel (Normal Girl) and a memoir (Girl, Maladjusted). She is working on her third book (The Social Climber's Handbook). Jong is known to some for a brief liaison with publisher Andy Stewart, then the husband of Martha Stewart, an episode detailed in Jong's 2006 book Seducing the Demon. Jonathan Fast (born April 13, 1948, in New York City, New York) is an American author and social work educator. ...
Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer. ...
Molly Jong-Fast is an United States author. ...
Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate. ...
In the late 1990s Jong wrote an article about her fourth marriage in the magazine Interview. Since she and her prospective husband knew much about the hazards of marriage, they drew up a prenuptial agreement. After ten years, they noticed that they had never taken it out of the drawer where it had resided since its signing. She and her husband decided that it was no longer needed, so they ceremoniously burned it. This act has become a tradition in some circles. Interview is a magazine founded by artist Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969. ...
Jong lived briefly in Heidelberg, Germany with her second husband, while he was stationed at an army base there, an experience she chronicled in her first novel, Fear of Flying. She was a frequent visitor to Venice, and wrote about that city in her novel, Shylock's Daughter. Map of Germany showing Heidelberg Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
Fear of flying is a fear of air travel. ...
Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ...
Jong has publicly questioned the official version of the September 11, 2001 attacks.[1] [2] She has made an appearance on Showbiz Tonight and more recently on Real Time with Bill Maher. Jong has openly expressed her support for Charlie Sheen in his 9/11-related interviews, calling him "a brave man."[1] The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ...
A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...
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Bibliography
Fiction - Fear Of Flying (1973)
- How To Save Your Own Life (1977)
- Fanny, Being The True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980)
- Parachutes & Kisses (1984)
- Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima
- Any Woman's Blues (1990)
- Inventing Memory (1997)
- Sappho's Leap (2003)
Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong, which became famous for its then-controversial attitudes towards feminism and female sexuality. ...
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Non-fiction - Witches (1981,1997,1999)
- Megan's Two Houses (1984,1996)
- 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)
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)
Trivia - Erica Jong is mentioned in the Bob Dylan song "Highlands".
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...
Awards - Poetry Magazine's 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
See also Laura Kipnis is a cultural and media critic. ...
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