Poetic Obituaries: Widely admired as an acute observer

of family life in small Southern towns, he [Reynolds Price] won the William Faulkner Award for his first novel, "A Long and Happy Life" (1962), which introduced the saga of the Mustian family. Over the next five decades he produced more than three dozen books of fiction, poetry and autobiography. Fourteen were novels, including the epics "The Surface of Earth" (1975) and "The Source of Light" (1981).

from Los Angeles Times: Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor
then The New York Times: Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77

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