Jong, Erica Mann (1942- )

US novelist and poet. She won a reputation as a feminist poet with her first collection Fruits & Vegetables (1971). Her novel Fear of Flying (1973) depicted a liberated woman's sexual adventures and became an instant best-seller. It was followed by two sequels How To Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984).

Other works include her non-fictional Witches (1981), a portrait of Henry Miller in The Devil at Large (1993), and the novel Sappho's Leap (2003).