Erica Jong is an award-winning poet, novelist and essayist best known for her eight bestselling novels: Fear of Flying, which has sold twenty million copies in thirty-seven languages, How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Parachutes & Kisses, Shylock's Daughter (formerly Serenissima), Any Woman's Blues, Inventing Memory, and Sappho's Leap. Her mid-life memoir Fear of Fifty also became a major international bestseller. She is also the author of seven award-winning collections of poetry, including the most recent, Love Comes First, and five non-fiction books. She frequently blogs for The Huffington Post.Jong is a past president of the Author's Guild and a frequent lecturer in the U.S. and abroad, and has been honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize for her poetry, the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence (France), the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature (Italy), and the first Fernanda Pivano Prize for Literature (Italy). For more information, visit her website www.ericajong.com.