Eugenia Price was born on 22 June 1916 in Charleston, West Virginia, and worked for years in American radio, writing programmes for NBC and Procter & Gamble. After a religious conversion in 1949 she turned to writing, first producing inspirational Christian non-fiction such as The Unique World of Women, on the lives of women in Bible times and in the present day, before moving into the historical fiction of the American South for which she became best known, including her novels of St Simons Island and Savannah.
Price died of congestive heart failure on 28 May 1996 in Brunswick, Georgia.
