The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Jong, Erica
(Erica Mann Jong) (jông, zhông) (KEY) , 1942–, American novelist and poet, b. New York City. She created a sensation with Fear of Flying (1973), a comic, picaresque novel of sex and psychiatry that challenged conventional views of women. Her other works include the poems in Half Lives (1973); the novels Fanny (1980), Any Woman’s Blues (1990), and Sappho’s Leap (2003); and the memoirs Fear of Fifty (1994) and Seducing the Demon (2006).
