biography
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Jong, Erica
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née Mann
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Writer and poet, born in New York City, New York, USA. She studied at Barnard College (1963 BA) and Columbia University (1965 MA; School of Fine Arts 1969–70). She taught at a variety of institutions in New York City, and in Heidelberg, Germany, as a faculty member of the Overseas Division of the University of Maryland. She wrote volumes of poetry and novels, and achieved some celebrity with Fear of Flying: A Novel (1973), a story of sexual fantasies that some interpret as a liberating text for women. |
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