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Reynolds Price

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born
February 01, 1933 in Macon, North Carolina, The United States

died
January 20, 2011

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs


About this author

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 has taught at Duke since 1958 and is now 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 is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Ac...more


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Average rating: 3.90 · 5,069 ratings · 624 reviews · 71 distinct works
Kate Vaiden
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
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Roxanna Slade: A Novel
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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A Long and Happy Life: A Novel
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions
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A Whole New Life: An Illnes...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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The PROMISE OF REST
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 117 ratings — 5 editions
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Surface of Earth
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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Source of Light
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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Blue Calhoun: A Novel
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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The Good Priest's Son: A Novel
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 81 ratings — 5 editions
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Tongues of Angels: A Novel
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 84 ratings — 7 editions
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Quotes by Reynolds Price

“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”
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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”
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“Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.”
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