Erica Jong papers, 1955-2018, bulk 1965-2004

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Series 1: Correspondence, 1958-2004

This series is arranged chronologically and alphabetically. The chronological correspondence includes both personal and business correspondence and is organized by decade from the early 1970s through 2011. The alphabetically arranged material retains Jong's original ordering by person, and includes brief correspondence with a number of figures from the literary, political, and film industries. The folder titles in this section reproduce Jong's own titles. A cache of letters from Jong's time as a student at Barnard and Columbia, correspondence from her time living in Germany with her then husband, Allan Jong, and fan mail are also in this series.

Chronological, 1973-2004

Request Box 1

Box 1 Folder 1 to 4 1970s (4 Folders), 1970s

Box 1 Folder 5 1982-1984

Box 1 Folder 6 to 21 1980s (16 Folders), 1980s

Box 1 Folder 22 1987-1990

Box 1 Folder 23 to 24 1990s (2 of 17 Folders), 1990s

Request Box 2

Box 2 Folder 1 to 15 1990s (15 of 17 Folders), 1990s

Box 2 Folder 16 1990s--Author's Guild

[Restricted until 2040]

Box 2 Folder 17 2000s

Alphabetical, 1970-1987

Box 2 Folder 18 General, 1970-1972

Box 2 Folder 19 Alther, Lisa, 1976-1978

Box 2 Folder 20 Amichai, Yehunda, 1978-1981

Box 2 Folder 21 Atwood, Margaret, 1972-1985

Box 2 Folder 22 Avedon, Burt, 1977-1978, Undated (with Transcript of Tapes), 1977-1978, Undated

Box 2 Folder 23 Axinn, Donald, 1981-1985

Box 2 Folder 24 Bach, Alice, 1973-1975

Box 2 Folder 25 Barber, Ben, 1975-1987

Box 2 Folder 26 Barty-King, Mark, 1978, 1987, 1978, 1987

Box 2 Folder 27 Bates, Jon, 1982-1984

Box 2 Folder 28 Bergman, Ingmar, 1976-1982

Box 2 Folder 29 Berheim, Kurt, 1975

Box 2 Folder 30 Berek, John, 1979

Box 2 Folder 31 Bernard, Bina, 1979

Box 2 Folder 32 Birenbaum, Caroline, 1978-1980

Box 2 Folder 33 Birstein, Ann, 1978-1979

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 1 Bold, Alan, 1979-1981

Box 3 Folder 2 Bookbinder, 1979-1985

Box 3 Folder 3 Brogger, Suzanne, 1976

Box 3 Folder 4 Broner, Esther, 1979-1981

Box 3 Folder 5 Brown, Arvin, 1982-1985

Box 3 Folder 6 Brown, Helen Gurley, 1977-1987

Box 3 Folder 7 Brown, Rosellen, 1970, 1977-1980, 1970, 1977-1980

Box 3 Folder 8 Broyard, Anatole, 1981-1982

Box 3 Folder 9 Burgess, Anthony, 1979-1986

Box 3 Folder 10 Chabrier, Hortense, 1982-1985

Box 3 Folder 11 Charney, Maurice, 1981-1986

Box 3 Folder 12 Cheever, John, 1973

Box 3 Folder 13 Chesler, Phyllis, 1976-1986

Box 3 Folder 14 Chester, Laura, 1977-1987

Box 3 Folder 15 Clifford, James, 1977-1980

Box 3 Folder 16 Collins, Connie, 1979-1980

Box 3 Folder 17 Collins, Judy, 1987

Box 3 Folder 18 Connery, Sean, 1977

Box 3 Folder 19 Cooper-Clark, Diana, 1980-1986

Box 3 Folder 20 Cox, Virginia, 1978-1982

Box 3 Folder 21 Darling, Grace, 1975-1984

Box 3 Folder 22 Davis, Hope, 1983-1984

Box 3 Folder 23 Delbanco, Nick, 1972

Box 3 Folder 24 Diehl, Digby, 1976-1985

Box 3 Folder 25 Dillon, Martin, 1974-1981

Box 3 Folder 26 Dychtwald, Ken, 1979-1980

Box 3 Folder 27 Edwards, Page, 1981

Box 3 Folder 28 English, Diane, 1979-1980

Box 3 Folder 29 Evans, Joni, 1979-1985

Box 3 Folder 30 Fast, Howard and Bette, 1979-1983

Box 3 Folder 31 Field, Edward, 1978-1979

Box 3 Folder 32 Follett, Ken, 1980-1986

Box 3 Folder 33 Fonda, Jane, 1983

Box 3 Folder 34 Francke, Linda Bird, 1979-1983

Box 3 Folder 35 Frankfort, Ellen, 1977-1983

Box 3 Folder 36 Franks, Michael, 1982-1983

Box 3 Folder 37 French, Marilyn, 1979-1984

Box 3 Folder 38 Friday, Nancy, 1983

Box 3 Folder 39 Frym, Gloria, 1977

Box 3 Folder 40 Fujita, S. Neil, 1984-1986

Box 3 Folder 41 Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar, 1979-1986

Box 3 Folder 42 Goedicke, Patricia, 1971-1982

Box 3 Folder 43 Goulianos, Joan, 1978-1983

Box 3 Folder 44 Granger, Janet, 1983

Box 3 Folder 45 Gray, Francine, 1977-1979

Box 3 Folder 46 Green, Gerald, Undated

Box 3 Folder 47 Green, Hannah, 1973

Box 3 Folder 48 Greer, Germaine, 1979

Box 3 Folder 49 Guenther, John, 1977

Box 3 Folder 50 Hadas, Pamela, 1983

Box 3 Folder 51 Hamilton, Gene, 1981-1982

Box 3 Folder 52 Hayes, Muriel, 1972

Box 3 Folder 53 Heilbrun, Carolyn, 1980

Box 3 Folder 54 Hellman, Lillian, 1979

Box 3 Folder 55 Höhs, Liselotte, 1983-1987

Box 3 Folder 56 Holm, Astrid, 1979-1980

Box 3 Folder 57 Houston, Bob, 1982-1985

Box 3 Folder 58 Irving, Shyla, 1978-1979

Box 3 Folder 59 Janeway, Elizabeth, 1975-1977

Box 3 Folder 60 Karetsky, Gerri, 1984-1986

Box 3 Folder 61 Kaufman, Bel, 1979-1986

Box 3 Folder 62 King, Stephen, 1979-1984

Box 3 Folder 63 Klein, Marcus, 1975 (With Letters from Leslie Fiedler), 1975

Box 3 Folder 64 Klein, Norma, 1977-1979

Box 3 Folder 65 Knop, Pat, Undated

Box 3 Folder 66 Kronhausen, Eberhard, 1984-1987

Box 3 Folder 67 Kutzin, Alice, 1977

Box 3 Folder 68 Lauder, Leonard and Evelyn, 1980-1987

Box 3 Folder 69 Levin, Ira, 1978, 1981, 1978, 1981

Box 3 Folder 70 Leven, Jeremy (Martin Levin),1980-1982

Box 3 Folder 71 Licht, Judy, 1983

Box 3 Folder 72 Liebert, Robert, 1975

Request Box 4

Box 4 Folder 1 Lifshin, Lyn, 1976-1980

Box 4 Folder 2 Lord, Betty, 1984

Box 4 Folder 3 Love, Iris, 1980

Box 4 Folder 4 MacShane, Frank, 1975-1978

Box 4 Folder 5 Mann, Seymour and Eda, 1980-1984

Box 4 Folder 6 Mason, Barbara, 1978-1983

Box 4 Folder 7 Mee, Charles, 1981

Box 4 Folder 8 Michi (Kyoko Michishita), 1980-1981

Box 4 Folder 9 Miller, Arthur and Inge Morath, 1983-1987

Box 4 Folder 10 Minck, Eric, 1978-1979

Box 4 Folder 11 Mitchell, Stephen, 1983-1984

Box 4 Folder 12 Moers, Ellen, 1979

Box 4 Folder 13 to 14 Nitzsche, Jane Chance, 1978-1983, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 15 Nicolai, Adeodato, 1979-1984

Box 4 Folder 16 O'Brien, Edna, 1977

Box 4 Folder 17 Occhiuzzi, Franco, 1977-1978

Box 4 Folder 18 Onassis, Jackie, 1981

Box 4 Folder 19 Ozick, Cynthia, 1972-1987

Box 2 Folder 24 has an envelope from Ozick, 1973

Box 4 Folder 20 Packard, William, 1979

Box 4 Folder 21 Peer, Liz, 1982-1983

Box 4 Folder 22 Phillips, Robert, 1971-1987

Box 4 Folder 23 Plumb, J.H., 1979-1983

Box 4 Folder 24 Previn, Dory, 1975, 1984, 1975, 1984

Box 4 Folder 25 Reardon, Joan, 1978-1984

Box 4 Folder 26 Rich, Adrienne, 1973-1974

Box 4 Folder 27 Robinson, Jill, 1983-1987

Box 4 Folder 28 Rostas, Susan, 1977

Box 4 Folder 29 Rothberg, Arlyne, 1980-1984

Box 4 Folder 30 Rukeyser, Muriel, 1982

Box 4 Folder 31 Ryan, Michael, Undated

Box 4 Folder 32 Sarton, May, 1976, 1979-1980, 1976, 1979-1980

Box 4 Folder 33 Schiff, Gunther, 1973-1980

Box 4 Folder 34 Schoijet, M, 1972

Box 4 Folder 35 Schulman, Grace, 1979-1983

Box 4 Folder 36 Shulman, Alix Kates, 1978

Box 4 Folder 37 Showalter, Elaine, 1980-1983

Box 4 Folder 38 Simon, Carly, 1982, 1985, 1982, 1985

Box 4 Folder 39 Simpson, Louis, 1980

Box 4 Folder 40 Skylar, Dusty, 1978-1979

Box 4 Folder 41 Smith, Carol, 1972-1973

Box 4 Folder 42 Sopher, Sharon, 1979-1981 (With Poetry and Script), 1979-1981

Box 4 Folder 43 Spector, Sally, 1987

Box 4 Folder 44 Spiegelman, Joel, 1980-1987

Box 4 Folder 45 Steinberg, David and Blue, 1978-1985

Box 4 Folder 46 Sternburg, Janet, 1979-1980

Box 4 Folder 47 Stone, Merlin, 1979

Box 4 Folder 48 Targ, William, 1974-1975

Box 4 Folder 49 Thomas, Dom M., 1983-1987 (with Transatlantic Journal), 1983-1987

Box 4 Folder 50 Thorvall, Kerstin, 1979-1980

Box 4 Folder 51 Thwaite, Anthony, 1973

Box 4 Folder 52 Ticknor & Fields, 1980

Toth, Emily, 1977-1984

Box 4 Folder 53 Correspondence, 1977-1984

Box 4 Folder 54 Inside Peyton Place--Uncorrected Proof,, 1981

Box 4 Folder 55 Women of Wit--Viking Press, Undated

Box 4 Folder 56 Ullman, Liv, 1976, 1979, 1984, 1976, 1979, 1984

Request Box 5

Box 5 Folder 1 to 3 Untermeyer, Louis, 1971-1978, (3 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 4 U.S. Senators, etc., 1977-1978

Box 5 Folder 5 Updike, John, 1973-1982

Box 5 Folder 6 Vogel, Vivica, 1982-1984

Box 5 Folder 7 Wahl, Nicholas, 1981

Box 5 Folder 8 Wax, Judith, 1979

Box 5 Folder 9 Weise, Liaria, 1976-1987

Box 5 Folder 10 Weldon, Fay, 1981-1987

Box 5 Folder 11 Wheat, Chip, 1976-1982

Box 5 Folder 12 Wiinblad, Bjorn, 1977-1985

Box 5 Folder 13 Winters, Nancy, 1978-1985

Box 5 Folder 14 Wolfe, Linda, 1977-1983

Box 5 Folder 15 Zacharia, Don, 1981-1985

Box 5 Folder 16 to 17 "Author's Guild Letters,", 1991, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 18 "Answered", 1975

Box 5 Folder 19 Acropole Press, 1979-1987

Box 5 Folder 20 Capra Press, 1976-1977

Box 5 Folder 21 "Crazy Letters,", 1980-1983

Box 5 Folder 22 to 24 Early Letters, 1957-1975 (3 Folders), 1957-1975

Request Box 6

Box 6 Folder 1 "Famous People,", 1976-1987

Fan Mail, 1970s-1999

Box 6 Folder 2 to 19 General, 1970s-1985 (18 of 24 Folders), 1970s-1985

Request Box 7

Box 7 Folder 1 to 6 General, 1974-1999 (6 of 24 Folders), 1974-1999

Box 7 Folder 7 Audio Tape, 1979

Box 7 Folder 8 Friends, 1969-1971

Box 7 Folder 9 "General Corresp,", 1992-1994

Box 7 Folder 10 Hubbard Communications Office, 1963

Box 7 Folder 11 to 12 Invitations and Requests, 1984-1986 (2 Folders), 1984-1986

Box 7 Folder 13 LA Times Book Review, 1977

Box 7 Folder 14 "Letters to Editor,", 1972

Box 7 Folder 15 "Literary Agent", 1985

Box 7 Folder 16 "Literacy Volunteers of America", 1992

Box 7 Folder 17 to 19 "Miscellaneous Correspondence," 1976-1987 (3 Folders), 1976-1987

Box 7 Folder 20 to 21 "Miscellaneous Personal,", 1976-1981, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 22 The Perfect Man , 1987

Box 7 Folder 23 Personal, 1974-1975

Request Box 8

Box 8 Folder 1 to 3 "Personal From EJ,", 1980-1987, (3 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 4 to 6 "Personal To EJ,", 1977-1987, (3 Folders)

Poetry, 1962-1976

Box 8 Folder 7 General, 1962-1968

Box 8 Folder 8 Anthologies and Prizes, 1970-1976

Box 8 Folder 9 Submission Letters, 1969-1970

Box 8 Folder 10 to 11 Presses and Magazines, 1969-1972 (2 Folders), 1969-1972

Box 8 Folder 12 to 14 "Professional-Notes of Thanks, Etc, Papers,", 1992-1994, (3 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 15 Teaching Positions, 1970

Box 8 Folder 16 Templin, Charlotte--Interview, 1991

Request Box 9

Box 9 Folder 1 to 2 "Weird and Funny," 1976-1981, Undated, 1976-1981, Undated, (2 Folders)

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Erica Jong papers, 1955-2018, bulk 1965-2004

Series 1: Correspondence, 1958-2004