Reynolds Price, a long-time Duke University professor and award-winning writer whose novel “Kate Vaiden,” received national acclaim, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack. He was 77.
Duke spokesman Keith Lawrence said Price died after he was stricken last Sunday.
A native of Macon, Price graduated summa cum laude from Duke in 1955, where he studied creative writing under William Blackburn, whose other Duke students included noted authors William Styron and Anne Tyler.