Eugenia Price - (1916-1996)
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By Jade WilliamsI. Biography Eugenia Price is a very well-known author in Georgia. She was
regionally from Chicago but in 1961 when her and a companion went to a bookseller's convention they decided to check out St. Simon's Island. There, she fell in love with the region and decided to make it her home.
Eugenia Price had written thirty-nine fiction and nonfiction books and was already a well-known author in the Christian book world before she moved to St. Simon's in 1961.
She was a very hard working person she typed on an Underwood Typewriter that she felt this battle was an integral part of her creative process. She dedicated long hours to her
writing, personally answered all of her fan mail, spent long hours in meticulous research, handled her own business affairs, and even negotiated with publishers herself. The only
thing Eugenia Price did not do herself was retype her manuscript for the publisher. Eugenia Price wrote a number of books. Some of her more known books are New Moon Rising, Savannah, and
The Beloved Invader. Many books written by Eugenia Price were great novels. She studied places and people around her and even used her own experiences to write her stories.
Eugenia Price was a great writer she worked hard and was very dedicated to her work. Every year on New Year's Day, Eugenia's goal was to be doing the thing she loved,
writing. She said that she believed that "whatever you were doing on New Year's Day you would be doing all year long." She proved her dedication when she finished writing her last book The Waiting Time
; even in her last few weeks she was dedicated to her work. Eugenia Price died on May 28 and was laid to rest in the cemetery Christ Church she was only seventy-nine. II. Sources
"Eugenia Price." September 29, 2000. This essay was submitted by a student of Debbie Wooten, a teacher at Bacon County High School in Alma, Georgia.
"Eugenia Price." September 20, 2000.