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CAREER Jong is best known for her first Novel , '' Fear Of Flying '' (published in 1973 ), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires. Jong wrote "Fear of Flying" in the first person, and her main character suffers from the fear of flying in more than one way, including the literal one. As her airline flight is taking off from New York on its way to Vienna, Austria, she states, "I am so frightened that my nipples would be standing up against the inside of my bra, if I was wearing a bra." PERSONAL LIFE Jong has been married four times; first to a college sweetheart; then to Allan Jong, a psychiatrist (these two liaisons are described in Fear of Flying); then to 's then-husband, publisher Andy Stewart. Jong describes it in her 2006 book, "Seducing the Demon," as a mistake. Jong lived briefly in Heidelberg, Germany with her second husband, while he was stationed at an army base there, an experience she chronicled in her first novel, Fear Of Flying . She was a frequent visitor to Venice , and wrote about that city in her novel, "Shylock's Daughter". VIEWS ON 9/11 Jong has publicly questioned the official version of the , she expressed her support for Charlie Sheen in his 9/11-related interviews, calling him "a brave man." BIBLIOGRAPHY Fiction
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