Inspirational Quotes by Reynolds Price (American Novelist)

Reynolds Price (1933–2011,) fully Edward Reynolds Price, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and academic. Celebrated as an important voice in modern Southern fiction, he wrote stories set in the state of North Carolina that portray ordinary people struggling to find their place in the world.

Born in Macon, North Carolina, Price got educated at Duke University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford’s Merton College. He later taught at Duke since 1958.

Price’s début novel A Long and Happy Life (1962) was the first in a trilogy that also comprised of A Generous Man (1966) and Good Hearts (1988.) A Long and Happy Life, with its unforgettable hero, the young and spirited Rosacoke Mustian, won the William Faulkner award for a notable first novel and has never been out of print. Price’s other novels include Love and Work (1968,) The Surface of the Earth (1975,) The Source of Light (1981,) and Kate Vaiden (1986.)

In his later years, Price became increasingly drawn to religion, particularly after becoming a paraplegic from radiotherapy for cancer of the spine. He wrote translations of the gospels and the religious meditations A Whole New Life (1994) and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (2003.)

Price also produced poetry, plays, and translations from the Bible. He wrote radio-essays for the NPR public broadcasting service.

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