Celebrated novelist, Duke professor Reynolds Price dead at 77

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Source: WRAL.com



Reynolds Price, the celebrated writer of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays and plays who turned a three-year teaching appointment into more than 50 years on the faculty at Duke University, died Thursday afternoon. He was 77.

Price, the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke, his alma matter, had a major heart attack early Sunday.

“With a poet’s deep appreciation for language, Reynolds Price taught generations of students to understand and love literature,” Duke President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “Reynolds was a part of the soul of Duke; he loved this university and always wanted to make it better.”

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A native of Macon, N.C., Price graduated summa cum laude from Duke in 1955 and was a Rhodes Scholar, having studied in Oxford, England.

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I posted this since we have so many scribblers at DU.

RIP, Dr Price. Your eloquence will be very missed around here. And I regret I never got to take one of your classes.



Link for a fun story about James Taylor and Reynolds price working together on the song "Copperline"

http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/8977891/#/vid8977891

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1. So sad to see him go.

I remember reading Kate Vaiden when it came out in the 80s (that dates me). Another great Southern writer lost.