Sandra Hochman Biography

Sandra Hochman (born on September 11th, 1936 in New York City) is an award winning American author, poet, journalist, novelist, educator, 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 7 books of poetry and is the first female to receive the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. She is the highest paid female journalist in America. She had 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 is the first feminist film ever made. She co-produced it with Porter Bibb, the producer of The Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. described it as “the greatest combination of sex and politics ever seen in a film.”`