Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price (born 1933) is an award-winning U.S. novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University . Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Price was born in Macon, North Carolina and, after attending public schools of his native state, went to Duke University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1955. Afterwards he went to Merton College, Oxford for three years as a Rhodes Scholar. After his return in 1958, he started teaching at Duke University, which he has been doing ever since. Price once replied when asked why he chose to remain in North Carolina: "It's the place about which I have perfect pitch."
Books
- A Long and Happy Life (1962)
- The Names and Faces of Heroes (1963)
- A Generous Man (1966)
- Love and Work (1968)
- Permanent Errors (1970)
- Things Themselves (1972)
- The Surface of Earth (1975) (part one of the A Great Circle trilogy of novels aka The Mayfield Trilogy)
- Early Dark (1977)
- A Palpable God (1978) (contains translations from the Old and New Testaments, with an essay on the origins and aims of narrative)
- The Source of Light (1981) (part two of the A Great Circle trilogy)
- Vital Provisions (poems, 1982)
- Mustian (1983)
- Private Contentment (a 1984 television play)
- Kate Vaiden (1986)
- The Laws of Ice (poems, 1986)
- A Common Room (1987)
- Good Hearts (1988)
- Clear Pictures (his 1989 memoir)
- The Tongues of Angels (1990)
- The Use of Fire (poems, 1990)
- New Music (a 1990 trilogy of plays)
- The Foreseeable Future (stories, 1991)
- Blue Calhoun (1992)
- Full Moon (a 1993 play)
- The Collected Stories (1993)
- A Whole New Life (Price's 1994 memoir describing his battle against, and survival of, spinal cancer that started in 1984 and left him paralysed)
- The Promise of Rest (1995) (part three of the A Great Circle trilogy)
- Three Gospels (1996) (contains Price's translations of the Gospels of Mark and John, with introductory essays)
- The Collected Poems (1997)
- Roxanna Slade (1998)
- Letter to a Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care? (an epistolary essay, 1999)
- Feasting the Heart (2000) (52 of the essays he regularly broadcasts on National Public Radio's news programme All Things Considered )
- Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997 (2000)
- A Perfect Friend (Price's first children's book, 2000)
- Noble Norfleet (2002)
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