| Sandra Hochman | |
| Birth Date: | 11 September 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Manhattan, New York City |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Bennington College, Columbia University, Sorbonne University |
| Website: | sandrahochman.com |
| Signature: | Signature Sandra Hochman.png |
| 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. She had also had musicals produced on and off Broadway. Her one woman play based on her memoir My father, My friend was going to be directed by Julie Arnell in June 2018. She created her own foundation, "You're an Artist Too" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry to children ages 7–12. She ran this program for 15 years. She has lived in Paris and Hong Kong and now lives in Manhattan.
When she was young she met Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis. They were married in the State of Israel, and soon after they lived in Paris. She writes about these years in her book Paris 1958 - 1960. After she and Gitlis were divorced she married Harvey Leve, a Harvard University lawyer who was the head of the treasury department in Hong Kong. They had a daughter, the writer Ariel Leve. After they divorced, Harvey worked as an international lawyer in Thailand and later Indonesia. He is now retired and lives in Bali. Their daughter, Ariel Leve, is a journalist for the London Times, travels between New York and Bali. In 2016 Ariel published a critically acclaimed memoir An Abbreviated Life in which she explores the psychological consequences of physical and emotional abuse she faced in her childhood and the aftermath of survival.
Sandra Created the Foundation You're An Artist Too which was an after school program held weekly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was for children for ages 8–12 and it successfully ran for 15 years. Her Foundation received a generous donation from the Uris Brothers Fund in the amount of 300 million dollars. The program received a two-page review in The New York Times.
Hochman was a freelance writer for People Magazine, New York Magazine and The New York Times.