Price, Charles F. 1938- (Charles Fred Price)

PERSONAL:

Born October 21, 1938, in Clyde, NC; son of Edgar C. (a Methodist minister) and Gertrue Greene (a homemaker) Price; married Carol Knott, 1964 (divorced, 1993). Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: High Point College, A.B., 1961; University of North Carolina, M.P.A., 1977. Politics: "Democratic." Hobbies and other interests: Clay sculpture, drawing, painting.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—Burnsville, NC. E-mail—charlesfprice.com.

CAREER:

Journalist, novelist, urban planner, management consultant, Washington lobbyist, teacher of creative writing, and literary consultant. Military service: U.S. Army Reserve, 1961-66.

MEMBER:

North Caroliniana Society, Yancey County History Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1999, for Freedom's Altar; Historical Fiction Award, North Carolina Society of Historians, and Independent Publishers Award, outstanding book of the year, both 2000, for The Cock's Spur; Historical Fiction Award, North Carolina Society of Historians, 2003, for Where the Water-Dogs Laughed: The Story of the Great Bear.

WRITINGS:

NOVELS

HiwasSEE: A Novel of the Civil War, Academy Chicago (Chicago, IL), 1966.

Freedom's Altar, John F. Blair (Winston-Salem, NC), 1999.

The Cock's Spur, John F. Blair (Winston-Salem, NC), 2000.

Where the Water-Dogs Laughed: The Story of the Great Bear, High Country Publishers (Boone, NC), 2003.

Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel of the American Revolution in the South, Frederic C. Beil Publisher (Savannah, GA), 2007.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 1, 1996, Brad Hooper, review of HiwasSEE: A Novel of the Civil War, p. 1489.

Library Journal, November 1, 1999, Ann E. Irvine, review of Freedom's Altar, p. 152.

Publishers Weekly, May 20, 1996, review of HiwaSEE, p. 240; February 1, 1999, review of Freedom's Altar, p. 75; September 25, 2000, review of The Cock's Spur, p. 87.