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Erica Jong

(Erica Mann Jong)

(1942 - )

About Erica Jong

Erica Jong, award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist, is best known for seven bestselling novels and her midlife memoir, Fear of Fifty. She is a former president of the Authors Guild and frequent lecturer on women's rights, authors' rights, and free expression both here and abroad. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Love Comes First

Novels

Fear of Flying (1973)
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Fanny: Being the True Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-jones (1980)
Parachutes and Kisses (1984)
Serenissima (1987)
aka Shylock's Daughter
Any Woman's Blues (1989)
Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers And Daughters (1997)
Of Blessed Memory (1997)
Sappho's Leap (2003)
Love Comes First (2009)

Collections

Fruits and Vegetables (poems) (1971)
Half-Lives (poems) (1973)
Loveroot: Poems (poems) (1975)
Selected Poems (poems) (1978)
At the Edge of the Body: And Other Poems (poems) (1979)
Selected Poems Vol 2 (poems) (1980)
Ordinary Miracles: New Poems (poems) (1983)
Becoming Light: Poems, New And Selected (poems) (1991)

Picture Books

Megan's Book of Divorce: A Kid's Book for Adults (1984)
aka Megan's Two Houses

Non fiction

Witches (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 And Power (1998)
Conversations with Erica Jong (2002)
Seducing the Demon: My Life as a Writer (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Erica Jong

The Best of the Best (1997)
Wild Women (1997)

Short stories

	How-to Books and Other Absurdities (1971)
	Songs in the Key of I (1998)

Links to other websites

ericajong.com

Erica Jong recommends

The Third Child (2003)
Marge Piercy
"Marge Piercy is one of the most important writers of our time."

Mozart's Ghost (2008)
Julia Cameron
"Heartbreakingly funny. Julia Cameron is a writer who writes from the heart. The real thing is always good news. Pass it on."

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