Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.In 1973, Erica Jong exploded onto the literary scene with “Fear of Flying,” her chronicle of the soul-searching, sensuality-seeking adventures of an intellectual young poet named Isadora Wing during a business trip with her second husband to a psychoanalysts’ conference in Vienna. In June 2009, Erica won the first Fernanda Pivano Prize for Literature in Italy.Įrica Jong lives in New York City and Weston, CT with her husband, attorney Ken Burrows, and standard poodle, Belinda Barkowitz.
Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island. The City University of New York awarded Ms. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. The Erica Mann Jong Writing Center at Barnard teaches students the art of peer tutoring and editing.Įrica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She established a program for young writers at her alma mater, Barnard College. She served as president of The Authors' Guild from 1991 to 1993 and still serves on the Board.
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Known for her commitment to women's rights, authors' rights and free expression, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world. "As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy," Jong says. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the U.S., Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar.
Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.Ĭalling herself "a defrocked academic," Ms. In 2008, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. Martin's Press in September 2015.Ī graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. Erica's much anticipated novel, Fear of Dying, is due for publication by St. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. Erica's memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. In her three historical novels-Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap-she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (20 million in print around the world in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels-How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. She has published 23 books, including nine novels, seven volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times, The Sunday Times of London, Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal. (Bio used Erica Jong-novelist, poet, and essayist-has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness.
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