An editor, author, and translator, Eleanor Hochman (1928-2018) earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and worked for many years at a major New York City publishing house.
Her translations from the French include George Sand’s feminist classic, Indiana; Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers; and Claude-Edmonde Magny’s The Age of the American Novel, a pioneering study of the relationship between film and fiction.
In collaboration with her husband, Stanley Hochman (1924-2014), she also translated Emile Zola’s Germinal; co-authored a reference book, A Dictionary of Contemporary American History; and published (under pseudonyms) several romance novels — a homage to her fascination with popular fiction.