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Erica Jong
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American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Erica Jong is an American novelist, poet, memoirist, and critic known for her literary contributions across multiple genres. She is significant in American literature for her work in fiction, poetry, and memoir writing, as well as her critical commentary.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1942
- Works
- 144
Top works
- Fear of Flying
- Crazy Cock
- How Do I Save My Own Life
- Any Woman's Blues
- Fear of Fifty
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-03-26
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 600
- Total plays
- 1,297
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 15,088x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,998x
- Global Consequences of Land Use
· 2005 · cited 9,862x
- Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes
· 2009 · cited 9,764x
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Quotes
- “I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.”
- “I have had the experience of having my sister get up at a meeting at Columbia University, where these scholars from all over the world were anointing Fear of Flying as a classic. And my sister got up and said, "Erica Jong has ruined my life — with her books."”
- “My advice to a young writer: Never give up. Read everything you can read — particularly the writers who move you deeply. Study how they do what they do. Read and read and read ... and write and write and write.”
- “Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...”
- “Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”
- “The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.”
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Encyclopedic overview
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. The Washington Post said in 2013 that it had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, while by 2022, The New York Times reported that worldwide sales of the book had increased to over 37 million copies.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erica Jong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.