Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, United States on February 1st, 1933 and is the Poet. At the age of 77, Reynolds Price biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.
Price had a lifelong fascination with biblical scholarship in lieu of English literature.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Personal life
Price lived alone for the majority of his adult life and was openly gay. He had an affair with British poet Stephen Spender in 1957, and he was visiting the Spender family's house for Christmas.
Price awakened in his bed and claimed to have had a life-changing mystic encounter and vision in which he met Jesus Christ at the Sea of Galilee just after dawn on July 3, 1984, during his tumour treatment. This is an account of the occurrence in A Whole New Life: The price includes an account of it.
Career
Over his career, Price produced 38 total novels, short stories, and memoirs. Price is classified as a Southern writer, as his works are often especially associated with his lifelong home of North Carolina. Price's first ever published story, called "A Chain of Love", came in 1958. He wrote his first novel, A Long and Happy Life, and witnessed its publication in 1962. The work received the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1963) and has sold over a million copies. His 1986 novel Kate Vaiden also gained immense popularity and received the National Books Critics Circle Award. Price composed a memoir entitled Clear Pictures in 1989 which directly led to the production of a Charles Guggenheim documentary about the author's lifetime. He completed another memoir called A Whole New Life in 1994 which chronicled his journey after the discovery of cancer in his spine. The Collected Poems, containing four volumes of poetry – Vital Provisions (1982), The Laws of Ice (1986), The Use of Fire (1990), and The Unaccountable Worth of the World (1997) – was published in 1997.
Price entered the realm of pop culture with the release and Top-40 status of James Taylor's song "Copperline," which he and Taylor wrote together. Bill Clinton characterized Price as one of his favorite authors.
On the cover of the December 6, 1999 issue of Time magazine, Price's name appeared. Victor Strandberg explains, "Price's name was next to a Renaissance portrait of Jesus alongside a headline that reads, 'Novelist Reynolds Price offers a new Gospel based on archeology and the Bible.' Inside the magazine, this cover story begins with Time's statement that 'A great novelist and biblical scholar examines what faith and historical research tell us after 2,000 years and emerges with his own apocryphal Gospel'."