| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| 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 2025, she is around 47 years old. |
| Children / No of Kids | 3 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Jewish |
| Nationality | American |
| 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. |
Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- 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. In June 2025, Jong-Fast published her memoir “How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir” which became a New York Times Bestseller within three weeks.
- 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 and Matthew first met on Nerve(dot)com website in June 2002 and later got engaged in February 16, 2003. The couple married on November 1, 2003 at the New York Palace Hotel.
- Matt and Molly have three children – a son Max and twins Darwin and Beatrice.
- In 2023, Jong-Fast faced a devastating year when her husband Matthew was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, coinciding with her mother Erica Jong’s dementia diagnosis and her stepfather’s Parkinson’s disease. Matthew has since recovered and written about how his cancer diagnosis clarified his mission as an impact investor.
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.
- In June 2025, Jong-Fast published her memoir “How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir” which became a NY Times Bestseller within three weeks of release.
- Besides her books, 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).
- Once Jong-Fast mentioned on Twitter (now called X) that she wants to trick one of her children into watching Downton Abbey with her. She has now built a social media following of over one million on the platform, making her one of the most influential liberal voices in American media.
- 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.’
- In her best selling memoir, Molly painted a raw portrait of her mother, novelist Erica Jong. Molly called Erica a “fame-seeking, alcoholic narcissist” with a “staggering lack of self-awareness.” She recounts the painful choice to move both her mother and stepfather into nursing care in 2023 for their safety, and reveals that during the pandemic, Erica often spent her days in bed, drinking heavily.
- In 2025, Jong-Fast embarked on a sweeping nationwide book tour, headlining marquee events with Maureen Dowd in Washington, D.C., Lisa Kudrow in Los Angeles, Peter Sagal in Chicago, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner at New York’s 92nd Street Y.
I was suspended by Twitter for the following comment regarding Herr Drumpf…“If enough Americans overcome his Redneck Strumpets with their vote, he will be. Then there will probably be cheering in the UN Chamber.”
Sep 28, 2020, 10:26 AM
I appealed and got ignored. This was at the same time they were allowing him to make all kinds of outrageous & abusive comments about everything. All I suggested was that America should vote him out. Any attempts to contact Twitter to reason with them simply get the same “please note that while we review your appeal, you won’t be able to access your Twitter account. We’ll take a look and will respond as soon as possible. If you’d rather just delete the content, you can cancel your appeal.”
I do not see what in my comment is so offensive that it earned such a ban. So I will not delete the comment as a matter of principle.
Herr Drumpf meanwhile stirred up an insurrection and attempted to stage a coup with his lies and misinformation, but Twitter did nothing about him until after Jan 6th. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Everything is people of color. Did you know white and black are not colors? But you are right in that this case is covered more, not because she was white just knew the right people.
Did you know white and black are not colors? I agree that this case has been all over except tv. They just know the right people. Sad but they do not deserve what they got but if you stay with an abusive person then oops