Erica Jong
Erica Jong · Arts & Literature
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1942, New York City, USA
United States
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Erica Jong is an American novelist and poet whose 1973 novel Fear of Flying, a frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires, became a landmark of second-wave feminism and has sold over 37 million copies. Born in Manhattan to parents of Polish- and Russian-Jewish ancestry, she is Jewish and has often drawn on Jewish identity in her work.
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