Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated in the public schools of his native state, he earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Duke University. In 1955 he traveled as a Rhodes Scholar to Merton College, Oxford University to study English literature. After three years and the B.Litt degree, he returned to Duke, where—for over fifty years—he taught as James B. Duke Professor of English.
With his novel A Long and Happy Life—which won the William Faulkner Award in 1962—he began a career that resulted in thirty-nine subsequent volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, memoirs, and translations. His novels included Kate Vaiden, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1986. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his work has appeared in seventeen languages. Price died in January 2011.
BOOKS BY
REYNOLDS PRICE
MIDSTREAM 2012
ARDENT SPIRITS 2009
LETTER TO A GODCHILD 2006
THE GOOD PRIEST’S SON 2005
A SERIOUS WAY OF WONDERING 2003
NOBLE NORFLEET 2002
FEASTING THE HEART 2000
A PERFECT FRIEND 2000
LETTER TO A MAN IN THE FIRE 1999
LEARNING A TRADE 1998
ROXANNA SLADE 1998
THE COLLECTED POEMS 1997
THREE GOSPELS 1996
A WHOLE NEW LIFE 1994
THE COLLECTED STORIES 1993
FULL MOON 1993
BLUE CALHOUN 1992
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE 1991
NEW MUSIC 1990
THE USE OF FIRE 1990
THE TONGUES OF ANGELS 1990
CLEAR PICTURES 1989
GOOD HEARTS 1988
A COMMON ROOM 1987
THE LAWS OF ICE 1986
KATE VAIDEN 1986
PRIVATE CONTENTMENT 1984
VITAL PROVISIONS 1982
THE SOURCE OF LIGHT 1981
A PALPABLE GOD 1978
EARLY DARK 1977
THE SURFACE OF EARTH 1975
THINGS THEMSELVES 1972
PERMANENT ERRORS 1970
LOVE AND WORK 1968
A GENEROUS MAN 1966
THE NAMES AND FACES OF HEROES 1963
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE 1962
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