[1][2] Richard and Clara began translating together in the late 1930s, working with the many German exiles in New York.
In 1978, they won the American Book Award for Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth.
[5] Their best known translations included the works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, Hermann Hesse, and Rolf Hochhuth, among others.
[4] In Richard's 1980 obituary in The New York Times, Clara described translation an interpretative art which relies on intuition.
Richard authored Charlemagne: From the Hammer to the Cross (1954) and Thomas Becket (1967), and Clara wrote the novels The Closest Kin There Is (1952), The Hours Together (1962), and Painting for the Show (1969).