Erica Jong



Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essayist best known for her eight best-selling novels: Fear of Flying, which has sold twenty million copies in thirty-seven languages, How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Parachutes & Kisses, Shylock’s Daughter (formerly Serenissima), Any Woman’s BluesInventing Memory and Sappho’s Leap. Her mid-life memoir Fear of Fifty also became a major international bestseller.

Ms. Jong is also the author of six award-winning collections of poetry. Her seventh collection, and first in eighteen years with all new poems, entitled Love Comes First, was released from Tarcher-Penguin in January 2009. She is also the author of five non-fiction books and regularly blogs for The Huffington Post.

In June 2009, Erica won the first Fernanda Pivano Prize for Literature in Italy.

Ms. Jong is currently working on a non-fiction book and a novel featuring Isadora Wing as “a woman of a certain age.” She is also editing an anthology that Harper Studio hopes to release in Winter 2010.

Talks

Erica Jong - Some Helpful Advice

Erica Jong delivers a grab-bag of ideas: advice for writers, reflections on family relationships,...