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Name | Molly Jong Fast |
Mother / Mom | Erica Jong |
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Dating / Partner / Boyfriend | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | August 19, 1978. As of 2024, she is around 46 years old. |
Where did Molly Jong-Fast go to college? | She studied at New York University, Barnard College, and Wesleyan University and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in English at Bennington College. |
Children / No of Kids | 3 |
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Jewish |
Nationality | American |
Biography / Profile BackgroundIntroduction :
- Molly Jong-Fast is a successful American author and liberal pundit.
- With brutal honesty and humor, Molly has written two successful novels and a biography.
- The success of her publications came via her unconventional upbringing with famous parents.
- Recent years have seen Jong-Fast has taken an active interest in politics.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Born on August 19, 1978, Molly was destined to become famous. She is the only child of her parents – Erica Jong (mother, novelist of sexual erotica) and Johnathan Fast (father, author and social work teacher).
- Her grandfather is Howard Fast, a well-known American novelist and TV writer.
- Currently, she lives in Manhattan with her husband Matthew Adlai Greenfield, a college lecturer turned financier.
- Molly has three children – a son Max and twins Darwin and Beatrice.
Early Life and Education :
- As the daughter of famous parents, Molly has been in the spotlight since her birth & was even featured in People magazine.
- Her parents had separated by the time she was three, and she was later brought up with the help of a great deal of child care.
- Educated at Riverdale Country School in New York City and later at Bennington College, which has the reputation of being one of America’s most entrepreneurial colleges, Molly’s ‘alternative’ lifestyle took over, and so she never graduated.
- By the age of 12, she had begun to move down the road towards a life of alcohol and drugs.
- At the age of 19, Molly entered a rehab program and has remained sober ever since.
Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Normal Girl was Molly’s first Novel published in 2000. The book detailed her experiences & were the inspiration for this humorous outlook at life.
- In 2005 and 2006, she published Sex Doctors in the Basement and Girl (maladjusted) as true stories from a semi celebrity upbringing.
- The Social Climbers Handbook published in 2011, was again set against a backdrop that Molly knows well – New York’s upper classes.
- Molly is a regular contributor to The Forward a Jewish Culture magazine.
- In a discussion with Interview magazine, Molly mentioned that she cried for a week after Election Day 2016 because she couldn’t believe that President Donald Trump had won. It was during this time that ventured into commentating on politics.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Despite being born Jewish, Molly was raised as a Catholic.
- Molly says she knew she was ‘weird’ because she was born a redhead with a Chinese surname and had nymphomaniacs as grandparents. Added to this, she lived in a house with a ‘hot pink door’ and had a dog called Poochini.
- Because of a terrible fear of flying, Molly missed a book launch in Ireland as she couldn’t face boarding another plane once she had got as far as England.
- Following a fan requesting she send them her used knickers, Molly decided to give up answering fan mail.
- A self-confessed ‘low rent yuppie,’ Molly enjoys taking her children to their activities and is involved with their Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
- Recently on Twitter (now called X), she mentioned that she wants to trick one of her children into watching Downton Abbey with her.
- Molly loves living in Manhattan and hosting politically charged dinners.
- The one thing Molly says she will never do is ‘to take sex advice from my mother.’
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