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Lucien Price
1883–1964
A longtime Boston journalist and prolific author, he wrote with a reflective, conversational style that moved easily between literary portraits, memoir, and social commentary. He is also remembered for the bold "All Souls" novels, now seen as an early contribution to gay literature in America.
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Immortal Youth: A Study in the Will to Create
by Lucien Price
About the author
Born in Kent, Ohio, in 1883, Lucien Price studied at Harvard and went on to build a long career in journalism. He worked for the Boston Evening Transcript and later wrote for the Boston Globe, while also contributing to magazines including The Atlantic Monthly. Over the course of his life, he published more than a dozen books and sometimes used the name Seymour Deming.
Price wrote across several kinds of nonfiction, including memoir, criticism, and conversations with major public figures. One of his best-known books, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, grew out of his friendship with the philosopher and helped bring Whitehead's ideas to a wider audience.
He is also of lasting interest for the privately published All Souls sequence, a series of novels that later readers have recognized as an unusually early and candid portrayal of homosexual life. That side of his work, together with his long newspaper career, gives his writing a distinctive place in twentieth-century American literary history.