Loveroot erica jong biography
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10-10-2000
ERICA JONG
(1942 - )
BIOGRAPHY
Erica Jong, poet, novelist and essayist, is best known for her six best-selling novels, Fear of Flying (12 1/2 million copies in print), How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Parachutes & Kisses, Shylock 's Daughter (formerly published as Serenissima) and Any Woman 's Blues.
What is less well known is that Ms. Jong began her literary life as a poet and has published six award-winning collections of poetry -- Fruits and Vegetables, Half-Lives, Loveroot, At the Edge of the Body, Ordinary Miracles, and Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected. She has been awarded the prestigious Bess Hokin Prize of Poetry (also won by Sylvia Plath), the Borestone Mountain Award for Poetry, and many others. In 1981, she published Witches, a perennial back-list favorite, whic
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June 11, 1975
Loveroot
Reviewed By ANATOLE BROYARD
hen "Fear of Flying" ended with the runaway wife returning to scrub her infidelities in her husband's bathtub, some feminists saw Erica Jong's novel as a washout. She may have come to agree with them, for she has since divorced her second husband and written an article in Vogue magazine on "the obsolescence of marriage." She has her own bathtub now, and her own bathos. She says, for example, that "Loveroot," her third book of poems, was written to prove that women poets need not commit suicide.The author leaves us in no doubt as to why some women poets did commit suicide. In a poem on Sylvia Plath and other "martyrs," she says, Men did them in." They will not do her in, however, for she has seen through their "doom-saying, death-dealing" ways. She is in her own hands, her "big mouth/filled with poems," and I think it should be interesting to see what s
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Erica Jong
American novelist and poet (born 1942)
Erica Jong | |
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Jong in 1977 | |
| Born | Erica Mann (1942-03-26) March 26, 1942 (age 82) New York City, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Barnard College (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
| Period | 1973–present |
| Genre | Primarily fiction and poetry |
| Notable works | Fear of Flying, Shylock's Daughter, Seducing the Demon |
| Spouse | Michael Werthman (m. 1963, divorced)Allan Jong (m. 1966, divorced)Jonathan Fast (m. 1977, divorced)Kenneth David Burrows (m. 1989; died 2023) |
| Children | Molly Jong-Fast |
| Relatives | Howard Fast (father-in-law) |
| www.ericajong.com | |
Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her