When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.   Although it contains many sexual elements the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman in her late twenties trying to find who Erica Jong is and where Erica Jong is going. Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an M.