Kate Vaiden

Edward Reynolds Price (born 1933) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist, best known for his Southern fiction exploring life in North Carolina, with notable works including A Long and Happy Life (1962), which won the William Faulkner Award, and Kate Vaiden (1986), recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University for over 50 years, he graduated summa cum laude from Duke, earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters after surviving spinal cancer that left him paraplegic.