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Authors: Erica Jong

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Jong around 1988, looking at artwork by Joseph Smith created for her illustrated book
Witches
. Jong explored the work of many artists, but in the end, she selected Smith’s work because she found his illustrations to be both spooky and sexy at the same time.

Jong at the Hôtel de Crillion, photographed for a newspaper feature. Jong liked this photograph so much that she used it in her poetry book
Becoming Light
.

Jong in Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Israel, for a literature festival. Jong has also taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Jong and Ken Burrows in their book-lined apartment. They collect rare first editions of Joyce, Eliot, Dickens, Beckett, Miller, Updike, Nabokov, and Radclyffe Hall.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1961, 1962, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1991 by Erica Mann Jong

Copyright © 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, by Erica Mann Jong

Cover design by Connie Gabbert

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