Erica Jong

About the Author

Erica Jong was born on March 26, 1942. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and a M.A. in 18th Century English Literature from Columbia University. She also attended Columbia University's graduate writing program where she studied poetry. She has written numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and show more non-fiction works including Fruits and Vegetables, Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, Sappho's Leap, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, and It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty). She has received numerous awards including the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature, Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence, and the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: E. JONG, Erica Jong, Erika Jong, Erico Jong, Erica Mann Jong

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Fear of Flying (1973) 3,414 copies

How to Save Your Own Life (1977) 644 copies

Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980) 598 copies

Sappho's Leap (2003) 374 copies

Witches (1981) 367 copies

Serenissima (1987) 336 copies

Parachutes & Kisses (1984) 335 copies

Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir (1994) 282 copies

Any Woman's Blues (1989) 282 copies

Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters (1997) 200 copies

The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller (1993) 190 copies

Fear of Dying (2015) 180 copies

Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (2006) 169 copies

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991) 114 copies

Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex (2011) — Editor — 103 copies

What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong (1998) 87 copies

Half-lives (1973) 79 copies

Fruits and Vegetables: Poems. (1971) 74 copies

Loveroot (1975) 72 copies

Here Comes and Other Poems (Originally Published As Fruits & Vegetables and Half-Lives) (1975) 51 copies

At the edge of the body (1979) 31 copies

Ordinary Miracles (1983) 28 copies

Love comes first : poems (2009) 12 copies

THE POETRY OF ERICA JONG, FRUITS & VEGETABLES, HALF-LIVES, LOVEROOT, 3 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE (1971) 10 copies

The World Began With Yes (2019) 10 copies

Four Visions of America (1977) 9 copies

Selected Poems (1978) 6 copies

Megan's Two Houses: A Story of Adjustment (1996) 6 copies

Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine (Volume 3, Number 2) (1972) 5 copies

Megan's Book of Divorce (1984) 4 copies

Frukt & grønnsaker (2019) 2 copies

Signet 2 copies

Miele e sangue. Con CD Audio (2001) 2 copies

Charlotte Bronte [graphic]. — Introduction — 2 copies

3 ERICA JONG Books: 1. Fear of Flying , 2. Fanny, 3. Any Woman's Blues 2 copies

Nana blues (1990) 2 copies

Para-quedas & beijos 1 copy

Il mondo è cominciato con un sì (2019) 1 copy

Senza cerniera: La mia vita (Overlook) (Italian Edition) (2021) 1 copy

Elli Yas Korkusu (1995) 1 copy

Selected Poems Vol 2 (1980) 1 copy

Vingeskudt : roman (2016) 1 copy

Salve a sua vida 1 copy

Deseta muza 1 copy

FRIKA E FLUTURIMIT 1 copy

Kako spasti sopstveni život 1 copy

Serenisima : roman (1990) 1 copy

Vrees voor vijftig memoires halverwege de rit (1995) 1 copy

O Vício da Paixão 1 copy

Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2: Edicion (Spanish Edition) (1999) 1 copy

ONCE CAN 1 copy

Jeg tør ikke dø : roman (2015) 1 copy

Strach vzlétnout 1 copy

Conversations With Erica Jong (Literary Conversations Series) (2002) 1 copy

Zaliger nagedachtenis (1998) 1 copy

Angst vorm Sterben, Kapitel 40 (2016) 1 copy

Three Eighteenth-Century Novels (1982) 1 copy

Im Zeichen der Venus. Frauen schreiben erotische Geschichten ( Anthologie). (1985) 1 copy

Lolita Turns Thirty (A new introduction by Erica Jong) 1 copy

TUGA SVAKE ZENE 1 copy

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Jane Eyre (1847) — Introduction, some editions — 57,442 copies

Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) — Introduction, some editions — 3,271 copies

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contributor — 366 copies

Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Contributor — 332 copies

The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contributor — 176 copies

My Little Red Book (2009) — Contributor — 161 copies

Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contributor — 141 copies

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contributor — 138 copies

The Other Woman: A Short Novel and Stories (1971) — Foreword, some editions — 137 copies

Adrienne Rich's Poetry [Norton Critical Edition] (1975) — Contributor — 122 copies

Witches' Brew (2002) — Contributor — 122 copies

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 115 copies

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 114 copies

Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contributor — 107 copies

The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty (1999) — Contributor — 104 copies

Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (1999) — Contributor — 84 copies

The Colette Omnibus (1960) — Introduction — 82 copies

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America (1996) — Contributor — 77 copies

In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry (1900) — Introduction — 73 copies

Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (2007) — Contributor — 63 copies

The Jewish Writer (1998) — Contributor — 50 copies

Sexual Revolution (2003) — Foreword — 38 copies

About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contributor — 26 copies

Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer (2005) — Contributor — 26 copies

Wild Women (1854) — Contributor — 23 copies

Inside Deep Throat [2005 Documentary] (2005) — Self — 17 copies

Passion: Women on Women (1995) — Narrator — 3 copies

Ein erotisches Lesebuch - Liebhabereien (1991) 2 copies

Zärtliche Blüten der Lust: Erotische Erzählungen. (1993) — Author — 2 copies

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