Jong

Jong
(1942– )
a US poet and author. She first became well known for her poetry with Fruits and Vegetables (1971). She then achieved international success with her novel Fear of Flying (1973), about the sexual life of the character Isadora Wing. Jong’s more recent novels include Inventing Memory (1997) and Sappho’s Leap (2003). She has also written about real people, e.g. the novelist Henry Miller in The Devil at Large (1993).

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