Clair Price

Clair Price is a little-documented American author whose surviving public record is centered on The Rebirth of Turkey (1923). In that book’s foreword, Price explains that an interest in the Near and Middle East began with a newspaper assignment and later grew into a broader personal study of the region.

That journalistic background shapes the book itself. Price presents the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kemal’s Turkey in a direct, observant style, drawing on material that had appeared in Current History in New York and the Fortnightly Review in London.

Beyond that work, biographical details are scarce, and even basic dates are not clearly established in the sources available here. What does come through clearly is a writer interested in international politics, modern nation-building, and explaining a fast-changing part of the world to English-language readers.