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Article: Enfant terrible no more, but Erica Jong shows no 'Fear of Fifty'. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- August 3, 1994
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BOSTON _ Erica Jong strode briskly into the Ritz-Carlton Hotel lobby, talking animatedly with a dark-suited young man, just before her interview for this story. After they parted cheerily, she explained he was a struggling Boston-based novelist: ``I've become sort of his mentor since I was president of the Authors Guild.''
Erica Jong, a senior literary patroness? It doesn't seem right, somehow _ like Ted Williams or Frank Sinatra being old guys. But then, no one can be an enfant terrible forever. Erica Jong is 52; 1994 is the 20th anniversary of her best-selling first novel, ``Fear of Flying,'' a milestone in feminine literary libido, and now comes her reflective, ...
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