Eric Francis Hodgins (1899 - January 7, 1971) was the American author of the popular Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946), illustrated by William Steig.

Hodgins graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an engineering degree, and served as editor in chief of The Youth Companion, associate editor of Redbook, and then as associate editor of Fortune magazine, where he wrote an expose of the European munitions makers, "Arms and the Men."

He became publisher of Fortune in 1937, and a vice president of Time Inc. in 1938. He quit Time Inc. in 1946 to write full time.

His novels also included a sequel, Blandings Way, published in 1950.

John Kenneth Galbraith mentions that he said he had graduated from MIT with a degree conditional on a promise to never practice any form of engineering. There is no listing for an Eric Hodgins in the MIT Alumni Directory but the MIT newspaper The Tech mentions that he is class of 1922 . His most famous quote is "A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do." [1]

He defined Journalism as the communication of information from one place to another in a reliable manner in order to serve the truth.[2]

He died in New York City.

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