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Lucien Price
1883–1964
A journalist-novelist with a long Boston career, he moved easily between reporting, memoir, philosophy, and fiction. He also wrote under the pen name Seymour Deming, leaving behind a body of work that feels wide-ranging and quietly distinctive.
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Immortal Youth: A Study in the Will to Create
by Lucien Price
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1883, Lucien Price was educated at Western Reserve Academy and graduated from Harvard in 1907. He became a journalist in Boston, writing first for the Boston Evening Transcript and later for the Boston Globe, where he continued working until his death in 1964.
Alongside newspaper work, he published more than a dozen books and contributed to The Atlantic Monthly. His books ranged across education, travel, memoir, and fiction, and he is also remembered for Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, a record of conversations with the philosopher that was authorized for publication.
Some of his fiction appeared under the name Seymour Deming. Archival records at Harvard note his notebooks and correspondence, which help show the breadth of a life spent writing in many forms over several decades.