American poet, novelist, journalist and filmmaker. Hockman's first husband was concert violinist Ivry Gitlis, and in 1965 she married Harvey Leve, an international lawyer with whom she has one daughter and who she later divorced. Hochman took her undergraduate degree from Bennington College in 1957 and then studied at the Sorbonne. She has been poet-in-residence at Fordham University and City College of New York. She received the Yale Series of Younger Poets award for Manhattan Pastures (1963).
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