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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism .
Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong.It became controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality, and figured in the development of second-wave feminism.. The novel is written in the first person, narrated by its protagonist, Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a 29-year-old poet who has published two books of poetry.
Jong-Fast is the daughter of novelist Erica Jong [2] and author Jonathan Fast, and the granddaughter of writer Howard Fast. [3] She was raised in a Jewish family, though she has mentioned that her nanny "raised [her] Catholic," despite not partaking in the sacraments. [4] Her parents divorced during her childhood, and she was raised as an only ...
The award-winning author of 'Fear of Flying' on Jenny Offill, 'Leaves of Grass,' and the Book That Everyone Should Read.
Fast was born in New York City.He attended Princeton University, and earned graduate degrees at Columbia University and Yeshiva University.He has a daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, from his first marriage, to author Erica Jong, [1] and two sons from his marriage to Barbara Fast, a Unitarian minister.
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Erica Jong wrote "...when I was searching for the freedom to write [the 1973 novel] Fear of Flying, I picked up Tropic of Cancer and the sheer exuberance of the prose unlocked something in me." [8]: 14 In turn, Miller praised Fear of Flying in 1974, comparing it to Tropic of Cancer. [58]
Martha Stewart has been teaching for decades — through cookbooks, on TV, in magazines that bear her name. Now she’s schooling the world on the events of her own storied life in the new Netflix ...