Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933 in Macon , North Carolina , † January 20, 2011 in Durham , North Carolina) was an American writer and literary scholar .
Life
Price earned a Bachelor of Arts (AB) from Duke University in 1955 and a second Bachelor of Letters (B.Litt.) From the University of Oxford in 1958 with a Rhodes Scholarship . He then got a job at Duke University, initially as a lecturer, and in 1977 as a professor of English . Here he gave lectures on creative writing , on John Milton and gospels . He stayed at Duke University for over 50 years, although his first job was initially limited to three years. His students include Anne Tyler and Josephine Humphreys .
Reynolds Price wrote a number of novels, mostly set in rural or small-town North Carolina, but also short stories , plays , poems , essays, and three autobiographies . He also translated passages from the Bible . Price was often compared to William Faulkner , but saw Eudora Welty as his role model.
For his debut novel A Long and Happy Life , Price received the William Faulkner Foundation Award in 1963, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel Kate Vaiden in 1986 . In 1990 and 1994, respectively, his autobiographical work Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides and his collection of short stories Collected Stories were each nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1964 Price received a Guggenheim Fellowship . In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , also in 1988 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Since 1984 Price had suffered from paraplegia caused by a tumor ( astrocytoma ) in the spinal cord . In 2009, Price came out as homosexual in his autobiography Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back . In 2010 he received the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Memoir / Biography category for this book . Reynolds Price died in 2011 of complications from a heart attack .
Web links
- Reynolds Price in the Encyclopædia Britannica (britannica.com)
- Reynolds Price at the Poetry Foundation (poetryfoundation.org)
- Reynolds Price , interview with The Paris Review , 1991
- Reynolds Price, author and long-time Duke English professor, dies. Obituary from Duke University (duke.edu) January 20, 2011.
- Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 . Obituary in the New York Times (nytimes.com) January 20, 2011.
- Reynolds Price in nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ National Book Critics Circle: Awards. In: bookcritics.org. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ^ The 1990 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ^ The 1994 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ^ Reynolds Price. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter P. (PDF; 649 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ^ Members: Reynolds Price. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Price, Reynolds |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macon , North Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 2011 |
| Place of death | Durham , North Carolina |