The novel was translated into more than forty languages and was wildly popular in the United States Canada, Europe, and as far afield as Japan and China. Nonetheless, she loves imparting literary knowledge, which she believes is just as important as entertaining and informing her audiences.Įrica Jong’s debut novel “Fear of Flying” sold more than 26 million copies. Jong loves to lecture and teach though she has asserted that this often gets in the way of her writing. Places where she has taught include Bennington College in the United States, Ben Gurion University in Israel, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and several prestigious universities and writing programs in the US. While it is her ultimate dream to teach at Columbia, she loves to refer to herself as a defrocked academic. On her part, Erica has expressed interest in one day becoming a tutor on Columbia while advising on the use of her works in the school archives. The collections can now be easily accessed by the university’s undergraduate and graduate students studying creative writing. In 2007, the Columbia University purchased a large collection of her works under its Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. She was also an attendee at the graduate writing program at Columbia and studied with Mark Strand and Stanley Kunitz.

Her fiction works have been popular all over the globe and are read by audiences in Europe, the United States, China, Japan, and other Asian countries.Īs a teenager, Erica went to Benard College and then proceeded to study for her masters at Columbia University, where she graduated with a degree in English literature. She has won several awards for her work in promoting female consciousness including the Excellence in Literature United Nations Award. She started out in 1971 and is still writing, which means she has a huge collection of novels that include six non-fiction works, six poetry collections, eight novels and several articles featured in newspapers and magazines such as New York Times Book Review, the New York Times, Vogue, the Sunday Times of London, Vogue and Elle among others. Erica Jong is an essayist, poet, and novelist who is best known for using her creativity to help drive rational and powerful feminist consciousness.

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