Molly Jong-Fast Biography
Molly Jong-Fast is an American author and freelance magazine writer. She is a Vanity Fair special correspondent and podcast host of ‘Fast Politics’ on iHeartMedia. She is also a political correspondent on MSNBC.
Molly was a drug addict and nearly died but she sobered up and is really grateful sive most kids that grew up like her are not high functioning. Her parents split up when she was just 3 and was often left with her grandparents as her mother was busy being a cultural icon. She was introduced to left-wing politics by his grandfather Howard Fast, a novelist and Communist activist who served prison time in the McCarthy era.
At the age of 6, in 1985, her mother moved her to the Beverly Hilton for a month because she was developing a sitcom based on her experience with divorce. Her mother intended to use her name as the characters but her father objected and was changed to Megan.
Jong is dyslexic and performed poorly in school which led to her ejection from Dalton. This saw her get into alcoholism and drugs and spent time at Hazelden, an the A-list rehab center. At the age of 21, she published a roman à clef about her struggles. After getting married she wrote her second book but she felt at a loss.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, she started tweeting as she realized at some point that he would win. She tweeted upto 15 times a day and replied to journalists and posted links to their stories. The conservative commentator Bill Kristol hired her to write for his site The Bulwark. She traveled and covered Trump rallies and conservative conferences using her own money. She turned her lack of reportorial expertise into an asset, forsaking complex political analysis for a “can you believe this?” astonishment.
Molly Jong-Fast Age and Height
She was born on August 19, 1978 and stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Molly Jong-Fast Education
Molly attended New York University, Barnard College, and Wesleyan University and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in English at Bennington College.
Molly Jong-Fast Parents
Jong-Fast is the daughter of Erica Jong and Jonathan Fast. Her father is an assistant professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in New York. Her mother is a novelist and poet best known for her 1973 bestseller Fear of Flying, a book that became a touchstone of the sexual liberation movement.
Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother got married to Kenneth David Burrows, a partner in Bender Burrows & Rosenthal, a New York law firm while her father married Rev. Barbara Fast, the associate minister of the Unitarian Church in Westport.
Jong-Fast has written about her parents sex life saying that she “wouldn’t have written about it if it didn’t feel so particularly hilarious, and strange and 1970s-ish.”
She said that her mother once revealed she and her father had “a ménage à trois.” She said she wasn’t surprised at the threesome, but she was surprised by who was involved — a woman who she said looked like rapper MC Hammer.
Molly Jong-Fast Siblings
Jong is the only child of her parents.
Molly Jong-Fast Husband
Molly is married to Matthew Greenfield since November 2003. He is a managing partner of Rethink Education, a venture capital firm that invests in education-related businesses with big, high-impact ideas.
He is also an assistant professor of English at the College of Staten Island in Willowbrook. He is also a poet and an editor of ”Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory” (Ashgate Publishing, 2000). He graduated from Yale, from which he also received master’s and Ph.D. degrees in English literature.
Molly Jong-Fast Kids
She has three children a son known as Max and Twins Darwin and Beatrice.
Molly Jong-Fast The Daily Beast
Molly is a former editor at large for the Daily Beast. In the late 2021 she joined The Atlantic where she remained until she joined Vanity Fair. She has also served as a contributing editor for The Bulwark, Playboy, and Glamour.
Molly Jong-Fast Podcast
In 2020 she began hosting ‘The New Abnormal’, a Daily Beast podcast, alongside Rick Wilson. In September 2021, she moved her podcast to iHeartMedia and renamed it to ‘Fat Politics’. She
Molly Jong-Fast Books
- Normal Girl (2002)
- The Sex Doctors in The Basement (2005)
- Girl [Maladjusted]: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood (2006)
- The Social Climber’s Handbook (2011)
Molly Jong-Fast Addiction
Molly revealed that she was a drug addict at a young age at joined Alcoholic Anonymous at the age of 19.
In an article on The Atlantic she wrote; “I joined AA at 19 mostly because I loved cocaine, truly loved cocaine, but also because I loved vodka and cheap white wine and diet pills and valium in enormous quantities. I wanted to not die, so joining was an easy decision, helped along by the knowledge that I came from a family of female alcoholics: My mother had written novels about her drinking, and my grandmother was famous for her drunken vomiting at various fine restaurants throughout Manhattan. So, on November 1, 1997, I boarded a plane for the Hazelden treatment center in Minnesota. Soon after, I began attending AA meetings, which I still attend to this day, though on Zoom right now. AA saved me. I’ve been sober through numerous life experiences—my 21st birthday, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (I went to a meeting that night), my wedding, the births of my three children, and now months and months and months of a pandemic that may go on for months and months longer.”
Molly Jong-Fast Salary
According to Glassdoor, the average annual salary of newspaper columnists is about $90,000. This is the figure for average newspaper contributors, but Molly is a prominent writer, so her yearly earnings can possibly be over $200,000 on an average year.
Molly Jong-Fast Net Worth
She holds an estimated net worth of $1 million as of December 2020.