I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

He has also been noted for his sexually frank writing and the ambiguous nature of his own sexuality; Price did not write publicly about being gay until his third memoir Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home Coming Back publiReynolds Priced in 2009. Price is a favorite author of Bill Clinton who invited him to dinner at the White House early in his first term. Reynolds Price (February 1 1933 – January 20 2011) born Edward Reynolds Price was an American novelist poet dramatist essayist and the James B.

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.