Melita C. Hofmann was an American artist and author.

She was curator of the Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient from 1944 to 1963. With diverse interests in nature, history, photography and music, she lectured frequently in museums and public libraries in New York and in Toledo, Ohio, her birthplace.

A graduate of Toledo University and the Parsons School of Design, Miss Hofmann received a B A. degree in art education at New York University in 1929 She also did graduate work at the Sorbonne and at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, Germany.

She taught at Sullins College in Virginia, Bennett Junior College, Millbrook, N.Y, and at the Parsons School.