Claire Nicolas White
Claire Nicolas White (June 18, 1925 – May 26, 2020) was an American poet, novelist and translator of Dutch literature. She was a niece of Aldous Huxley and the granddaughter-in-law of architect Stanford White.
Claire Nicolas White
- Full name
- Nicolas.
- Born
- 1925 · Groet.
- Died
- 2020 · St. James.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · novelist · translator · writer
- Languages
- English
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Life
Life
White was born in Groet, Netherlands, the daughter of Joep Nicolas, a Dutch stained-glass artist who emigrated to America just before World War II. She grew up in the European exile community in New York City. Her husband, the sculptor Robert White, was a grandson of Stanford White. White's literary papers are held by Stony Brook University.
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Claire Nicolas White (born 1925) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Claire Nicolas White was born in 1925.
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Translations
• (tr. with Louise Varèse) The Time of Our Lives (Journal d'une petite fille) by Martine Rouchaud, 1946. • The Assault by Harry Mulisch, 1985. Translated from the Dutch. • A Night in May (La Nuit de mai) by Alfred de Musset, 1989. Translated from the French. • A Letter of Time by Hans van de Waarsenburg, 1989. Translated from the Dutch (5 of the 7 poems). • The Vanishing by Tim Krabbé, 1993. Translated from the Dutch. • My Father's War: A Novel by Adriaan van Dis, 1996. Translated from the Dutch.
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Other
• Joep Nicolas: leven en werk, 1979 • The Bridge, 1987 • River Boy, 1988 • (ed.) Stanford White: Letters to His Family: including a selection of letters to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1997
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