Price, Reynolds (1933—)
Southern novelist and man of letters Reynolds Price has been a distinguished figure in American literature since the 1962 publication of his first novel, A Long and Happ...
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(Edward) Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933, the son of William Solomon and Elizabeth Rodwell Price. Both in his work and his life, he has rarely strayed far from the...
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Reynolds Price is most accurately described as a writer whose sharp realism and striking use of the local color of northern North Carolina are tinged with fantasy and, at times, mysticism. Price embra...
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In the preface to her study of Reynolds Price's works, Constance Rooke claims that Price's vision is "darker than many of his readers have supposed." Perhaps one of the reasons for this dark vision is...
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