Anthony Price
{{Short description|British author (1928–2019)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|8|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rickmansworth Hertfordshire, England
| birth_name = John Allan Anthony Price
| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|5|30|1928|8|16|df=y}}
| death_place =Blackheath London, England
| occupation = Novelist
| education = The King's School, Canterbury
| alma_mater = Merton College, Oxford
| period = 1970–1990
| genre = Thriller
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| children = James, Simon, and Kate
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- {{Awards|Silver Dagger|1971}}{{cite web |title=The Labyrinth Makers |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/the-labyrinth-makers |publisher=The Crime Writers' Association |accessdate=6 June 2019}}
- {{Awards|Gold Dagger|1974}}{{cite web |title=Other Paths to Glory |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/other-paths-to-glory |publisher=The Crime Writers' Association |accessdate=6 June 2019}}
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Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019) was an English author of espionage thrillers.
Early life
Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of captain. He read history at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952, and was awarded an MA in 1956.{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=407}}
Career
Price was a journalist with the Westminster Press from 1952 to 1988, as well as the editor of the Oxford Times from 1972 to 1988.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=James |title=OBITUARY: Ex-Oxford Times editor and crime author Anthony Price |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17688926.obituary-ex-oxford-times-editor-and-crime-author-anthony-price/ |accessdate=6 June 2019 |work=Oxford Mail Ltd |date=6 June 2019}}{{cite news|title=Anthony Price, much-admired author of the Dr David Audley spy novels – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/06/02/anthony-price-much-admired-author-dr-david-audley-spy-novels/|work=The Telegraph|date=2 June 2019}} {{registration required}} He was the author of nineteen novels in the Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series. These books focus on a group of counter-intelligence agents who work for an organization loosely based on the real MI5.
Death
Price died in Blackheath, London, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 30 May 2019, at the age of 90.{{cite news |last1=Ripley |first1=Mike |title=Anthony Price obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/09/anthony-price-obituary |accessdate=10 June 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=9 June 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/books/anthony-price-dead.html|title = Anthony Price, Author of Cold War Spy Thrillers, Dies at 90|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 14 June 2019|last1 = Genzlinger|first1 = Neil}}
Bibliography
=Novels=
- The Labyrinth Makers (1970) UK; (1971) US; winner of Silver Dagger Award.
- The Alamut Ambush (1971) UK; (1972) US
- Colonel Butler's Wolf (1972) UK; (1973) US
- October Men (1973) UK; (1974) US
- Other Paths to Glory (1974) UK; (1975) US; winner of Gold Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award given in 2005 by the Crime Writers' Association(CWA) to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
- Our Man in Camelot (1975) UK; (1976) US
- War Game (1976) UK; (1977) US
- The '44 Vintage (1978) UK & US
- Tomorrow's Ghost (1979) UK & US
- The Hour of the Donkey (1980) UK & US
- Soldier No More (1981) UK; (1981) US
- The Old Vengeful (1982) UK; (1983) US
- Gunner Kelly (1983) UK; (1984) US
- Sion Crossing (1984) UK & US
- Here Be Monsters (1985) UK & US
- For the Good of the State (1986) UK; (1987) US
- A New Kind of War (1987) UK; (1988) US
- A Prospect of Vengeance (1988) UK; (1990) US
- The Memory Trap (1989)
=Short stories=
- A Green Boy – first published in Winter's Crimes 5 (1973)
- The Boudicca Killing – first published in Winter's Crimes 11 (1979)
- The Berzin Lecture – first published in Winter's Crimes 15 (1983)
- The Chinaman's Garden – first published in John Creasey's Crime Collection 1984 (1984)
- The Road to Suez – first published in The Rigby File (1989), ed. Tim Heald
=Non-fiction=
- The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793–1815 (1990)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0696793|name=Anthony Price}}
- [http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=471 Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Anthony Price, Otto Penzler & others.]
- [http://www.tor.com/2010/02/05/history-informs-the-present-anthony-prices-audley-series/ Review of the Audley series] by Jo Walton
- [http://existentialennui.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-with-anthony-price-author-of.html Anthony Price interview Part I]
- [http://existentialennui.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-with-anthony-price-author-of_03.html Anthony Price interview Part II]
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Category:Writers from Hertfordshire
Category:British thriller writers
Category:British spy fiction writers
Category:People educated at The King's School, Canterbury
Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Members of the Detection Club
Category:Royal Army Educational Corps officers
Category:Military personnel from Hertfordshire
Category:20th-century British Army personnel
Category:Respiratory disease deaths in England
Category:Deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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