Eileen Alexander

Eileen Alexander 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 Wrld 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.