Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is a 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 American Academy of Arts and Letters. February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... James B. Duke James B. Dukes statue can be seen in front of Duke Chapel James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The school, which officially became Duke University in 1924, traces its institutional roots to 1838. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American as was T.S Eliot, Salman... American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ...

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. His first short stories were published in Duke's student literary periodical, Archive. Eudora Welty also helped Price get his first couple of books published; she sent one of his early stories, "Michael Egerton" to her own publisher, but Price's first book was not a collection of stories; it was a novel entitled A Long and Happy Life. Macon is a town in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... College name The House of Scholars of Merton Named after Walter de Merton Established 1264 Sister College Peterhouse Warden Prof. ... Superscript text Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His other books include his memoir Clear Pictures, and his novels The Tongues of Angels, Blue Calhoun, Kate Vaiden, Roxanna Slade and The Great Circle. The recent The Good Priest's Son is an account of a 9/11 experience.

Price is a Southern writer. All his books are set in the South and more particularly in his native North Carolina. Price once replied when asked why he chose to remain in North Carolina: "It's the place about which I have perfect pitch." Price has cited Southern writer Eudora Welty as one of his early influences. He has also been noted for his sexually frank writing, and the ambiguous nature of his own sexuality, which has been of critical interest to scholars. Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, refers to the ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note, or to be able to produce a note (as in singing) that is the correct pitch without reference. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

He began teaching at Duke shortly after completing his Rhodes Scholarship in the late 1950s. For more than forty years he has taught a class on Milton, and former students include the writer Anne Tyler and the actress Annabeth Gish. John Milton, English poet John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ... Anne Tyler (born on October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. ... X-Files publicity shot Annabeth Gish (b. ...

Price is a favorite author of Bill Clinton, who invited him to dinner at the White House early in his first term. William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... North façade of the White House, seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. ...

Price wrote the lyrics to two songs by James Taylor, Copperline and New Hymn. James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. ...

Price has received numerous literary honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Faulkner Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir Clear Pictures (1989). He is also a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Price’s book, Feasting The Heart (2000), is a collection of controversial and personal essays, originally broadcast to great acclaim on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters was formed in 1976 from the merger of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which was founded in 1898, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which was founded in 1904. ... Offical NPR logo National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the United States. ...

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) (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 (1994 memoir describing his survival of spinal cancer that started in 1984 and left him paralyzed)
• 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)
• A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin (1999)
• Feasting the Heart (2000) (52 of the essays he regularly broadcasts on National Public Radio's news program All Things Considered [1])
• Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997 (2000)
• A Perfect Friend (Price's first children's book, 2000)
• Noble Norfleet (2002)
• A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (2003)
• The Good Priest's Son (2005)
• Letter to a Godchild : Concerning Faith (2006)

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External links

• Price's Duke University page
• Online audio interview with Price
• New York Times reviews of Price's books
• Review of Price's Collected Poems
• StorySouth review of Price's Collected Stories
• RALPH magazine review of Price's memoir
• 1988, 1990, 1992 audio interviews with Reynolds Price by Don Swaim