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A Short Biography of Erica Jong

Author Name:

Erica Jong

Born As:

Erica Mann

Other Names:

Born:

26 Mar 1942

Died:





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Writer and teacher                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

Fear of Flying - novel - 1973
How to Save Your Own Life - 1977
Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones - 1980 - a retelling of 'Fanny Hill'
Megan's Book of Divorce: a kid's book for adults; as told to Erica Jong; illustrated by Freya Tanz. New York: New American Library - 1984
Megan's Two Houses: a story of adjustment; illustrated by Freya Tanz - 1984; West Hollywood, CA: Dove Kids, 1996
Parachutes & Kisses. New York: New American Library - 1984 - UK ed. as Parachutes and Kisses: London: Granada, 1984
Shylock's Daughter - 1987: formerly titled Serenissima
Any Woman's Blues - 1990
Inventing Memory - 1997
Sappho's Leap - 2003

Non-fiction:

Witches; illustrated by Joseph A. Smith. New York: Harry A. 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 my life - 2006
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave essay, "My Dirty Secret" - 2007
It Was Eight Years Ago Today - But It Seems Like Eighty - 2008

Poetry:

Fruits & Vegetables. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston - 1971; London : Secker and Warburg, 1973
Half-Lives - 1973
Loveroot - 1975
At the Edge of the Body - 1979
Ordinary Miracles - 1983
Becoming Light: Poems; new and selected. New York: HarperCollins - 1991 - Includes poems written in Jong's teens and 20s as well as selections from her previous books and new poems.                          
Mother Eda Mirsky
Father Seymour Mann - née Nathan Weisman, three daughters.
Husband  Kenneth David Burrows, one daughter.                          
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.