(born 1942), US novelist and poet; full name Erica Mann Jong. She is best known for her picaresque novels Fear of Flying (1973), recounting the sexual exploits of heroine Isadora Wing, and Fanny (1980), written in a pseudo-18th-century style.
Definition of Jong, Erica in US English:
Jong, Erica
proper nounˈyôNG
(born 1942), US novelist and poet; full name Erica Mann Jong. She is best known for her picaresque novels Fear of Flying (1973), recounting the sexual exploits of heroine Isadora Wing, and Fanny (1980), written in a pseudo-18th-century style.