Erica Jong

(Erica Mann Jong)

(b.1942)
Wife of Jonathan Fast, Mother of Molly Jong-Fast

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.

Series

Isadora Wing
1. Fear of Flying (1973)
2. How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
3. Parachutes and Kisses (1984)
4. Fear of Dying (2015)

Novels

Fanny (1980)
Serenissima (1987)
aka Shylock's Daughter
Any Woman's Blues (1990)
Inventing Memory (1997)
aka Of Blessed Memory
Sappho's Leap (2003)

Collections

Fruits and Vegetables (poems) (1971)
Half-Lives (poems) (1973)
Loveroot (poems) (1975)
Here Comes (poems) (1975)
Selected Poems (poems) (1978)
At the Edge of the Body (poems) (1979)
Selected Poems Vol 2 (poems) (1980)
Ordinary Miracles (poems) (1983)
Becoming Light (poems) (1991)
Love Comes First (poems) (2009)
The World Began With Yes (poems) (2019)

Picture Books

Megan's Book of Divorce (1984)
aka Megan's Two Houses

Non fiction

Witches (1981)
The Devil At Large (1993)
Fear of Fifty (1994)
What Do Women Want? (1998)
Conversations with Erica Jong (2002)
Seducing the Demon (2006)
Sugar in My Bowl (2011)

Anthologies containing stories by Erica Jong

Wild Women (1997)
The Best of the Best (1998)

Short stories

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

Erica Jong recommends

The Vagabond (1911)
Colette
"One of the first and best feminist novels ever written."

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."

Lillian On Life (2014)
Alison Jean Lester
"Lillian On Life is a quirky book with a very deep heart and soul. I found it full of life and full of wisdom."

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