Sandra Hochman

Infobox person | name = Sandra Hochman | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Manhattan, New York City | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | education = Bennington College, Columbia University, Sorbonne University | known_for = | website =sandrahochman.com | signature = Signature Sandra Hochman.png | signature_size = | spouse = Ivry Gitlis (d. 1960). Harvey Leve (m. 1965; d. 1970) | children = Ariel S. Leve | notable_works = Walking Papers, Manhattan Pastures Sandra Hochman' (born September 11, 1936 in New York City) is an American author, poet, screenwriter, lyricist and documentary film maker. Her first autobiographical novel Walking Papers was very well received and Philip Roth called it a masterpiece. She has published seven books of poetry; her first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. She has also written for The New York Times, Life (magazine), People (magazine), New York (magazine) and many more. She created the Foundation You're an Artist Too, which was an after school program held weekly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her film Year of The Woman was co-produced with Porter Bibb, the producer of The Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. After she graduated from the Cherry Lawn boarding school, she went on to graduate from Bennington College. She also has a master's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University. When she was living in Paris she studied at the Sorbonne. She was poet-in-residence at Fordham University, and City College of New York. Sandra is also a journalist as well as a poet. She was one of the first women to write a humor column for Harpers Bazaar Magazine. She also wrote her own semi-annual column alternating with Gloria Steinem. Her poems appeared in a two page spread in The New Yorker. She was one of the youngest poets to have her collected poems (Earthworks) published by the Viking Press. Ms. Huffington showed her film in 2017.