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<html> <head> <title>Reynolds Price</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/620/000114278/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Reynolds Price<img src="reynolds-price-1.jpg" height=286 width=210 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Reynolds Price">AKA Edward Reynolds PriceBorn: <a href="/lists/549/000106231/" class=proflink>1-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/932/000105617/" class=proflink>1933</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/870/000114528/" class=proflink>Macon, NC</a> Died: <a href="/lists/903/000106585/" class=proflink>20-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/513/000264718/" class=proflink>2011</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/487/000069280/" class=proflink>Durham, NC</a> Cause of death: Heart Failure Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: <a href="/lists/241/000069034/" class=proflink>Gay</a> <a href="#FN1">[1]</a> Occupation: AuthorNationality: United States Executive summary: A Long and Happy LifeWrote dozens of novels, mostly set in his native North Carolina. Taught at Duke for decades, where his students included <a href="/people/213/000048069/">Josephine Humphreys</a>. Toward the end, spinal cancer left him a paraplegic. <hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1">[1] Came out in his last book, 2009's Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back. Said he had been reluctant to mention his sexuality before then, because "I wanted to be very careful about not invading anyone else's privacy or making anyone more unhappy than seemed necessary."Brother: Will     University: <a href="/edu/510/000068306/">BA, Duke University (1955)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">B Litt, Merton College, Oxford University (1958)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/510/000068306/">Duke University</a>     <a href="/org/499/000062313/">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>     <a href="/honors/964/000048820/">National Book Critics Circle Award</a> 1986 for Kate Vaiden     <a href="/honors/422/000041299/">Rhodes Scholarship</a> Author of books: A Long and Happy Life (<tt>1962</tt>, novel) The Names and Faces of Heroes (<tt>1963</tt>, short stories) A Generous Man (<tt>1966</tt>, novel) Love and Work (<tt>1968</tt>, novel) Permanent Errors (<tt>1970</tt>) Things Themselves (<tt>1972</tt>) The Surface of Earth (<tt>1975</tt>, novel, A Great Circle) Early Dark (<tt>1977</tt>) A Palpable God (<tt>1978</tt>, biblical translations) The Source of Light (<tt>1981</tt>, novel, A Great Circle) Vital Provisions (<tt>1982</tt>, poetry) Mustian (<tt>1983</tt>) Kate Vaiden (<tt>1986</tt>, novel) The Laws of Ice (<tt>1986</tt>, poetry) A Common Room (<tt>1987</tt>) Good Hearts (<tt>1988</tt>, novel) Clear Pictures (<tt>1989</tt>, memoir) The Tongues of Angels (<tt>1990</tt>, novel) The Use of Fire (<tt>1990</tt>, poetry) New Music (<tt>1990</tt>, drama) The Foreseeable Future (<tt>1991</tt>, short stories) Blue Calhoun (<tt>1992</tt>) The Collected Stories (<tt>1993</tt>, short stories) A Whole New Life (<tt>1994</tt>, memoir) The Promise of Rest (<tt>1995</tt>, novel, A Great Circle) Three Gospels (<tt>1996</tt>, biblical translations) The Collected Poems (<tt>1997</tt>, poetry) Roxanna Slade (<tt>1998</tt>) Letter to a Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care? (<tt>1999</tt>, essay) Feasting the Heart (<tt>2000</tt>, essays) Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997 (<tt>2000</tt>) A Perfect Friend (<tt>2000</tt>, juvenile) Noble Norfleet (<tt>2002</tt>) A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (<tt>2003</tt>) The Good Priest's Son (<tt>2005</tt>) Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back (<tt>2009</tt>) Wrote plays: Private Contentment (<tt>1984</tt>, television play) Full Moon (<tt>1993</tt>) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=114278"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=114278">Reynolds Price</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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