The English Nonconformist minister and political philosopher Richard Price (1723-1791), who supported the American and French revolutions, devoted his life primarily to preaching. Richard Price was born at Tynton, Glamorganshire, on Feb. 23, 1723. The...

One of the leading rational Dissenters of his day, the Welshman Richard Price was born on 23 February 1723 at Llangeinor, Glamorgan, the son of Rice Price, a strict Presbyterian teacher and minister. Educated at a succession of Dissenting academies...

. 1723–91. Welsh philosopher and economist, born in Glamorgan, who worked as a clergyman in London. He supported the American and French revolutions. He was a leading representative of the ‘intuitionist’ school of moral philosophy,...

Price, Richard(1723–1791) Richard Price, a Welsh dissenting preacher, moral philosopher, and actuary, was born at Tynton, Llangeinor, Glamorganshire. His father, Rees, was a dissenting minister with extreme Calvinist opinions. Richard Price was...

Richard Price (February 23, 1723 – April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political philosopher. He was born at Tynton, Glamorgan, the son of a dissenting minister. Educated privately and at a dissenting academy in London, he became chaplain and...

Writer Richard Price has written his third novel 'Clockers' which has been filmed by Spike Lee. His two other novels are 'The Wanderers' and 'Blood Brothers.' The new Spike Lee movie Clockers originated in the powerful novel by Richard Price, one author and...

Richard P. Price of Sugar Grove Services for Richard P. Price, 77, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at Community United Methodist Church, 20 N. Center St., Naperville. Inurnment will be in Naperville Cemetery, Naperville. A memorial visitation will be...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the house that published three of the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in fiction, will host a monthly reading series at the Russian Samovar starting on Thursday, January 17 with a program featuring FSG authors Richard Price and Sam Lipsyte.The readings, which are...

Roman Kaplan, the majestic owner of the Russian Samovar, used to have a blog, but he stopped updating it in October because the people who were doing the typing and translating for him weren’t doing a good job. (The most recent entry is full of...

Bloodbrothers is an old American story with a new ending: an adolescent undergoes a rite de passage, then returns home instead of lighting out for the territories. Mr Price's technique mirrors this tension between freedom and captivity. On the surface the novel is liberated from decorum and cliché. The dialogue has the energetic authentic sound made familiar by [Hubert Selby's] Last Exit to Brooklyn and recent films like Mean Streets and Dog Day Afternoon. But underneath it is conventio...

At first it looks as if Richard Price is contriving extreme effects for their own sake in his first novel, "The Wanderers"…. By the end of the second story we have been treated not only to a torrent of street language that can't be sampled here and a swamp of sexual byplay that can't be described, but also to one aborted race war, one gang skirmish complete with Molotov cocktails and a scene in which two preteen-agers are threatened with mutilation of their genitals. Mr. P...

"Bloodbrothers" … is a book with a thesis: family loyalty is the ultimate treason to oneself. Like some proletarian fictions of a few decades back, this story of Stony De Coco, 18, and his clan grinds and blusters from point to point, undeterred by Price's feeling for life or his dramatic gifts. As Stony chooses between the family racket … and realizing his own possibilities in the world of strangers beyond the confines of Co-op City, the Bronx, incidents from the psychopa...