Well-beloved Durham author and poet, the late Reynolds Price was the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. He was born in Macon, North Carolina. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and then went on to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He began teaching at Duke in 1958, where he continued to write and teach almost up to his death in Janaury 2011.
Price's books are set in the South, usually in North Carolina. President Bill Clinton named Price as his favorite author. Price has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Faulkner Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9780743291897
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Published: Scribner, 5/2009
In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher. He gives often moving, and frequently comic, portraits of his great teachers in England -- such men as Lord David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, and W. H. Auden, who was the most distinguished English-language poet of those years. In London the poet and editor Stephen Spender becomes his first publisher and a generous friend who introduces him to rewarding figures like the essayist Cyril Connolly and George Orwell's encouraging widow, Sonia. He spends rich months traveling in Britain and on the Continent; and above all he undergoes the first loves of his life -- one with an Oxford colleague whom he describes as a "romantic friend" and another with an older man.
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ISBN-13: 9780684846941
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Published: Scribner, 5/1998
0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her? Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, KATE VAIDEN is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic and compelling as life itself.
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ISBN-13: 9781439109342
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On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of "A Long and Happy Life," "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel."
From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated millions of readers since its publication twenty-five years ago and its subsequent translation into fifteen languages. On the triumphant publication of KATE VAIDEN , his most recent novel, in 1986, there was almost no review that -- praising the new book to the skies -- didn't also mention in glowing terms the reviewer's fond recollection of the marvelous first novel, the troubled love story of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers and its beautifully evoked vision of rural North Carolina. It is a pleasure now to restore to print the cloth bound edition of this truly enduring work as a companion volume to his brilliant book of essays, A COMMON ROOM , published simultaneously.
Well-beloved Durham author and poet, the late Reynolds Price was the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. He was born in Macon, North Carolina. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and then went on to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He began teaching at Duke in 1958, where he continued to write and teach almost up to his death in Janaury 2011. 
