Erica Jong.

A biography of novelist and poet Erica Jong is presented. Jong was born on March 26, 1942 in New York City to second-generation Jewish parents of Polish and Russian origin with a family tradition of the arts. She became well-known in the early 1970s as a writer of sexual fiction from a woman's perspective and she is said to be an important novelist and poet of the 20th century. Her works include "Fear of Flying," "How to Save Your Own Life," and "Parachutes and Kisses."