Eugenia price biography examples

American novelist

Eugenia Price (sometimes Genie Price;^[1] June 22, – May 28, ) was an American author best known for her religious and self-help books, and later for her historical novels which were set in the American South.

Biography

Eugenia Price was born into a middle-class family in Charleston, West Virginia. Her father, Walter, was a dentist.

Eugenia price biography examples

At the age of ten Eugenia decided that she wanted to be a writer, an ambition encouraged by her mother Anna. She submitted a poem to her school's literary magazine. In , Price graduated from high school, declared herself an atheist, and decided to pursue a career in dentistry instead of writing.

After attending Ohio University for two years, Price became the only female student to be enrolled in Ohio's Northwestern Dentistry School. After studying dentistry for two years, she decided to pursue a career in writing again.

In she was hired by NBC to work on their radio series In Care of Aggie Horn, w