Stanley Hochman (November 4, 1924 – August 10, 2014)"Obituary: Editor Stanley Hochman, 89," Publishers Weekly, August 11, 2014. Retrieved 2019-12-10. was an editor for several New York City publishing houses and also a translator of European literature and nonfiction. Hochman's final editorial position was as Senior Editor at the former Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, which was acquired by Continuum Publishing in 1985, subsequently absorbed into Bloomsbury Publishing. Earlier in his career, he had held editorial positions at McGraw-Hill, Walker and Company, and several industrial trade magazines.
Hochman was the founding editor of the Ungar Film Library, an extension of that firm's Library of Literary Criticism. He personally edited several titles in the line, including American Film DirectorsStanley Hochman, ed. American Film Directors. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (published in 1974 as the first and only volume of the projected series A Library of Film Criticism) and From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara: A National Board of Review Anthology, 1920–1940Stanley Hochman, ed. From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara: A National Board of Review Anthology, 1920–1940. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (1982). For McGraw-Hill, Hochman edited the five-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 VolumesStanley Hochman, ed. in chief. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (2nd ed. 1984). McGraw-Hill also published his work for popular readers Yesterday and Today: A Dictionary of Recent American HistoryStanley Hochman. Yesterday and Today: A Dictionary of Recent American History. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (1979, reissued twice since by Penguin).Stanley and Eleanor Hochman. A Dictionary of Contemporary American History: 1945 to the Present. Retrieved 2019-12-10.Stanley and Eleanor Hochman. The Penguin Dictionary of Contemporary American History: 1945 to the Present. Retrieved 2019-12-10. Along with his wife, Eleanor, Hochman edited Kettridge's French/English, English/French Dictionary,Stanley and Eleanor Hochman, eds. Kettridge's French/English, English/French Dictionary. Retrieved 2019-12-10. an Americanized version of the British reference work from the 1940s and 1950s, published first in 1968 by New American Library (now a division of Penguin) and reissued twice since.Stanley and Eleanor Hochman, eds. Kettridge's French/English, English/French Dictionary. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
Hochman was also a translator from both French and Italian. Among his translations of French fiction were (also with Eleanor) Émile Zola's GerminalStanley and Eleanor Hochman, trans. Germinal. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (New American Library, 1970); Jules Renard's Poil de Carotte, and Other PlaysStanley Hochman, trans. Poil de Carotte, and Other Plays Retrieved 2019-12-10. (Ungar, 1977); and Simone Signoret's Adieu, VolodyaStanley Hochman, trans. Adieu, Volodya. Retrieved 2019-10-12. (Random House, 1986). He also translated a wide range of French film criticism and other non-fiction. His major translation from Italian was Vitaliano Brancati's Bell'AntonioStanley Hochman, trans. Bell'Antonio. Retrieved 2019-12-10. (Ungar, 1978). He and Eleanor also co-wrote romance novels under pseudonyms.
Hochman was born in the Bronx. He served in the U.S. Army during the latter phases of World War II attached to the 66th Infantry (Black Panther) Division. After completing his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College, he returned on the GI Bill to Paris to study at the Sorbonne and then earned an MA at Columbia University.Stanley Hochman, Robert Penn Warren: four in pursuit of definition (1952 master's thesis). Retrieved 2019-12-10.
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