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About Erica Jong Erica Jong, poet, novelist and essayist, is best known for her six bestselling novels, "Fear of Flying" (12 1/2 million copies in print), "How to Save Your Own Life," "Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones," "Parachutes & Kisses," "Shylock's Daughter" (formerly published as "Serenissima") and "Any Woman's Blues." What is less well known is that Ms. Jong began her literary life as a poet and has published six award-winning collections of poetry -- "Fruits and Vegetables," "Half-Lives," "Loveroot," "At the Edge of the Body," "Ordinary Miracles," and "Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected." She has been awarded the prestigious Bess Hokin Prixe of Poetry (also won by Sylvia Plath), the Borestone Mountain Award for Poetry and many others. In 1981, she published "Witches," a perennial backlist favorite, which tells the story of the witch in prose and poetry. "Megan's Two Houses," her first children's book, a story to help parents and children deal with divorce, is just out from Dove Kids. In 1993, "The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller" (Random House and Grove Press), appeared. It is Jong's memoir of her friendship with the author of the "Tropic of Cancer" and a study of his impact on contemporary literature. Erica Jong's work has been translated into 27 languages and has been awarded the Premio Internationale Sigmund Freud in Italy and the United Nations Award of Excellence. Barnard College named her its Woman of Achievement in 1987. She served as president of the Authors Guild of the U.S. from 1991 to 1993. Known for her commitment to women's rights, authors' rights and free expression, Ms. Jong is a frequent lecturer in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Jong's "Fear of Fifty" (Harper Collins Publishers), a mid-life memoir which has become a worldwide bestseller, was published in 1994. Ms. Jong has most recently published "Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters," a story spanning four generations and told from the point of view of four 20th century women. | |
