Jong had a comfortable childhood on the Upper West Side, where the family home was run by her grandmother and a maid from Jamaica. Jong’s parents started a successful business together, designing and marketing porcelain objects, including Blue Danube dinnerware and Seymour Mann dolls. Her father, Seymour Mann, had been a professional musician as a young man, publishing songs and performing as a percussionist on Broadway in Cole Porter’s Jubilee (1935), in which he performed in the band that debuted “Begin the Beguine.” Jong’s mother, Eda Mirsky Mann, was a visual artist, born in London to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. Erica Jong was born on March 26, 1942, in New York City, the second of three daughters in an artistically inclined Jewish family.
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