Her life and career has afforded her this keen perspective and she uses the multi-generational and multi-cultural backgrounds gleaned from editing Sugar in My Bowl as a jumping off point for this discussion. In addition to speaking about women’s rights and the status and future of women today, Jong has remarkable insights about sexuality in America. Her latest book is the anthology Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex (Ecco), which she edited. Her mid-life memoir Fear of Fifty also became a major international best-seller. Her other best-selling books include How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Parachutes & Kisses, Shylock’s Daughter (or Serenissima), Any Woman’s Blues, Inventing Memory, and Sappho’s Leap. In June 2009, Jong won the first Fernanda Pivano Prize for Literature in Italy.įear of Flying has sold 20 million copies in more than 40 languages. In Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature in 1975. She has received Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize for her poetry and the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence in France. In 1998, Erica was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has spoken at International Women’s Day at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, THiNK India, the International Jewish Literature Festival in Rome, the Goteborg Book Festival, La Milanesiana in Milan, Italy, the Iowa Women’s Leadership Conference, San Miguel Writer’s Conference in Mexico, The Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s Summer and Winter Words, Skirball, and has given Master Classes at Barnard and Hunter Colleges in New York City. Known for her commitment to women’s rights, authors’ rights, and free expression, Jong is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer around the globe. Her latest novel is Fear of Dying, was a critical hit in September, 2015.
The anniversary edition was heralded with a cornucopia of press including a major New York Times article about the enduring significance of Fear of Flying and Jong’s rightful place in the literary canon.
2013 marked the 40 th anniversary of the book and Holt, the original publisher, reissued this seminal work with a new introduction by Jennifer Weiner. The internationally best-selling story of Isadora Wing coined a new phrase for a sex act and liberated a generation with a new way of thinking about gender, sexuality, and freedom in our society. Request A Speaker Erica Jong Cultural Icon & Legendary Author of Fear of Flying Award-winning Poet, Essayist, and Best-selling Novelist Specialist in Women’s IssuesĮrica Jongis a poet, novelist, essayist, and cultural icon best known for her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying.
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