# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erica-jong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:26:27.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erica-jong"
name: "Erica Jong"
slug: "erica-jong"
description: "Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. The Washington Post said in 2013 that it had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, while by 2022, The New York Times reported that worldwide sales of the book had increased to over 37 million copies."
tagline: "American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erica_Jong08.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.573849878934624
  historical:           24.17348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump