Erica Jong is a poet, novelist, and essayist, best known for her eight New York Times bestselling novels: Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages); How to Save Your Own Life; Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones; Parachutes & Kisses; Shylock’s Daughter (previously called Serenissima); Any Woman’s Blues; Inventing Memory; and Sappho’s Leap.
Her midlife memoir, Fear of Fifty, remains a major international bestseller.
Ms. Jong is also the author of seven award-winning collections of poetry. Her latest, Love Comes First, was released by Tarcher-Penguin in January 2009.
Ms. Jong is also the author of several nonfiction books. Her work has appeared all over the world.
Known for her commitment to women’s rights, copyright, and free expression, Ms. Jong is a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad. She was president of the Authors Guild and now serves on its board.
She has established a program for young writers at her alma mater, Barnard College.
Columbia University (where she received her M.A. in eighteenth-century English literature) acquired her literary archive in 2008.
Ms. Jong has been honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, and the Deauville Award in France. In Italy, she has received the Sigmund Freud Award and the first Fernanda Pivano Prize, named for the woman who introduced Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, and Erica Jong to Italy.
Ms. Jong is working on a novel featuring “a woman of a certain age.”
Fear of Flying is in preparation as a BBC miniseries.
Sugar in My Bowl is her first anthology.
For more information, please visit her websites: www.ericajong.com and www.sugarinmybowl.com.
Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors.