Conversations with Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations) - Hardcover

Price, Reynolds

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878054820 ISBN 13: 9780878054824

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1991

Synopsis

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

About this title

About the Author

Reynolds Price (1933-2011)was born in Macon, North Carolina. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, hetaught at Duke beginning in 1958 andwas theJames B. Duke Professor of English at the time of his death. His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his "Collected Stories". "A Long and Happy Life" was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. "Kate Vaiden" was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The Good Priest's Son" in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and translations. Price is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.

From the Inside Flap

Interviews with the famed southern novelist and commentator

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878054820
• ISBN 13: 9780878054824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Humphries Professor Of French English And Comparative Literature Jefferson