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Reynolds Price, 77, a longtime Duke University professor and award-winning writer, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack.
A native of Macon, N.C., Price graduated summa cum laude in 1955 from Duke, where he studied creative writing. He was a Rhodes Scholar and studied in Oxford, England. He returned to the United States and took a three-year teaching job at Duke in 1958. After he wrote his first novel, he was asked to stay on, which he did for the next 53 years. In 1962, Price earned the Wil liam Faulkner Award for a notable first novel for his book “A Long and Happy Life.” He published numerous books after that, including the novel “Kate Vaiden,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986.
