(Edward) Reynolds Price
(b. 1933)

Reynolds Price has set much of his writing in the rural American South–a region with which he is deeply familiar. This familiarity has enabled Price to create the rich, complex characters that have become one of the hallmarks of his work as a writer.

Born in North Carolina, Price discovered an aptitude for writing early on; he won a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, and went on to teach at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and in Salzberg, Austria. As a writer, Price has produced novels, plays, poems, essays, and short stories. Two of his best-known novels, A Long and Happy Life (1962) and Kate Vaiden (1986) are especially noted for their strong women protagonists. Influences on Price's writing include his Christian beliefs and Southern oral traditions–a storytelling style that mixes regional language with history and detailed imagery.

Price has won numerous awards for his work. Among them are the National Book Critics Circle Award (best work of fiction) for Kate Vaiden, and a 1994 nomination for the Pulitzer Prize (fiction) for a collection of short works called The Collected Stories (1993).

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