Charles F. Price
Charles F. Price is the author of Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel of the American Revolution in the South, an account of a crucial but unjustly neglected military campaign in South Carolina during the summer of 1781. Price is also the author of the Hiwassee series, four works of historical fiction (Hiwassee; Freedom's Altar; the Cock's Spur and Where the Water-Dogs Laughed) set in his native Western North Carolina. The series comprises a single narrative cycle interweaving the partly imagined private history of his 19th-century ancestors with the public history of the Southern Appalachians. Freedom's Altar earned the 1999 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for historical fiction. Price is working on a new novel called Blood Offerings, based on an actual event in 1863 of a murderous rampage in Southern Colorado. He is a native of Haywood County, North Carolina and has been a Washington lobbyist, management consultant, urban planner and journalist. He holds a master's in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor's in history/political science from High Point University. He and his wife, Ruth are the founders of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival.
