William F. Claire was born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1935. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1954 and received his bachelor’s degree in 1958 from Columbia University. Claire studied at Georgetown University before joining the military. He went on to work for the Pentagon, as well as in various public and private jobs in Washington early in his career. A notable writer and poet, Claire founded the literary magazine Voyages in 1967. Since its inception, Voyages has won a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts award. Claire’s work has been published in The American Scholar, Antioch Review, New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Poetry Pilot of the Academy of American Poets, as well as numerous other major publications. His poems have also been recorded for the Library of Congress archives. He has earned a Rockefeller Foundation Grant for residency in Belagio, Italy and Fellowships at Yaddo and MacDowell. Claire currently lives in both Lewes, Delaware and Naples, Florida, and is the owner of an antiquarian art and book business.
William Claire
Studios
Chapman
William Claire worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…