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Reynolds Price

Born

in Macon, North Carolina, The United States

February 01, 1933

Died

January 20, 2011

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

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Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University. He taught at Duke since 1958 and was James B. Duke Professor of English.

His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his Collected Stories. A Long and Happy Life was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. Kate Vaiden was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Good Priest's Son in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and translations. Price was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 25,481 ratings · 2,665 reviews · 195 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kate Vaiden 3.89 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 1986 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Long and Happy Life 3.90 avg rating — 903 ratings — published 1962 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roxanna Slade 3.82 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing 3.97 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Promise of Rest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Calhoun 3.74 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Surface of Earth 3.86 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1975 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tongues of Angels 3.85 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Priest's Son 3.46 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Gospels 4.05 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”
― Reynolds Price, Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides

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“Strength just comes in one brand— you stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed.”
― Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden

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“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”
― Reynolds Price, The Tongues of Angels

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What shall we read in December, 2024? Books published in or before 1990.

Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor

17 votes 34.7%

A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price

11 votes 22.4%

The Shepherd of the Hills, by Harold Bell Wright

8 votes 16.3%

Dust tracks on the road, by Zora Neale Hurston

5 votes 10.2%

I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, Intro by Susan V. Donaldson

4 votes 8.2%

Travels of William Bartram, by William Bartram

4 votes 8.2%

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