Reynolds Price, an English professor at Duke University and author of more than 30 books, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors | | 3,573 | 52 | (3.73) | 16 | 0 |
- Kate Vaiden 345 copies, 12 reviews
- Roxanna Slade 207 copies, 6 reviews
- Three Gospels 202 copies, 1 review
- The Promise of Rest 179 copies, 1 review
- A Long and Happy Life 158 copies, 3 reviews
- A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing 150 copies, 5 reviews
- The Surface of Earth 109 copies, 1 review
- Reynolds Price: The Collected Stories 105 copies
- Letter To A Man In The Fire: Does God Exist And Does He Care 94 copies, 1 review
- Good Hearts 91 copies
- Tongues of Angels 80 copies, 3 reviews
- The Source of Light 75 copies, 1 review
- Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides 73 copies, 1 review
- Blue Calhoun 72 copies, 2 reviews
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Reynolds Price Reynolds PriceAward-winning novelist Reynolds Price will read from and sign copies of his new memoir, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back. This volume provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life, and details his time as a Rhodes Scholar, writer and a teacher whose remarkably enduring career still continues. Price is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. (booksense)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | 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; and in 1955 he traveled as a Rhodes Scholar to Merton College, Oxford University to study English literature. He returned to Duke where he taught for over fifty years. He was James B. Duke Professor of English, and published more than thirty books. He also pursued a life-long interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He was invited to the White House during President Clinton's first term, and wrote lyrics for two songs by James Taylor. A paraplegic since treatment for a spinal tumor in 1984, he died on January 20, 2011, from an apparent heart attack.
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