Eileen Alexander

<p><strong>Eileen Alexander</strong> was born in Cairo and grew up in a cosmopolitan Jewish family before moving to Cambridge as a student. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English in 1939 and worked during World War II for the civil service in the Air Ministry. Eileen went on to be a teacher, writer, and translator,  including translating some of Georges Simenon’s works.<br/></p>