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Erica Jong Biography |
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Erica (Mann) Jong (born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an United States author and educator. Jong graduated from Barnard College in 1963. She sometimes resides in Weston, Connecticut.
Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (novel) (published in 1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a Human female sexuality. 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)..." Personal life A 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, Jong grew up in New York City. She has an elder sister, Suzanna, who married a Lebanese businessman, Arthur Daou, and a younger sister, Claudia, who married Gideon Oberweger. 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 the 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 ("The Sex Doctors in the Basement"). 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". 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". Views on 9/11 Jong has publicly questioned the official version of the 9/11 attacks.http://www.infowars.com/video/clips/news/september_11/032406_showbiz_tonight_guests_wm.htm http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/24/sbt.01.html 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." http://youtube.com/watch?v=24irZFMh2t8&mode=related&search= Bibliography Fiction Non-fiction Poetry Awards See also 
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