[1] Stanford married Roland Arthur White, an architect, in 1942, and they had three daughters and one son.
Her oldest daughter is Academy Award nominated costume designer Rosanna Norton.
[1] When she died in 1987, at the age of seventy, Ann Stanford was at the apex of a long and distinguished career as a poet, translator, editor, scholar and teacher.
Over a period of forty years, she had written eight volumes of poetry, two verse plays, and a book-length study of the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet.
Her poems had appeared regularly in the most prestigious journals and magazines—the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Southern Review—and had been widely honored.