Claire Nicolas White

White was born in Groet, Netherlands,^[1] 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.^[2]

White's literary papers are held by Stony Brook University.^[3]

• (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 [nl], 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.

• 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