Name: PRICE, Edgar Hoffmann Aged: 89
Born: July 3, 1898 Where: Fowler, California
Died: June 18, 1988 Where: Redwood City, California
Interred: San Carlos, California
Married 1: Helen ? When: 1928 (div 31)
Married 2: Wanda ? When: 1934 (div 45)
Married 3: Loriena ? When: 1959
Awarded: World Fantasy Award in 1984 for Lifetime Achievement.

Educated at the US Military Academy with an Sc. B., Price served in WW I in the US Cavalry, and then did a later hitch with the Coast Artillery in 1923-24. Trying to go straight, Price then worked as a supervisor for Union Carbide, from 1924 into the deep depression year of 1932. "When Union Carbide fired me in 1932...I turned to full time writing...having served an apprenticeship of eight years."

Price began selling professionally to the pulps in the 1920s with his first story published in "Droll Stories." Price soon expanded into all of the pulp markets, writing horror, fantasy, mystery, and western stories...and later, novels. At the end of his writing career, Price, like Hannes Bok, became involved in and wrote almost exclusively articles on astrology.

Price was a dedicated admirer of Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith and traveled the country to visit and befriend all three, becoming one of the few pulp writers to do that. While he is more closely associated today with a supporting role for Clark Ashton's works, it is because they lived in the same state and the others died much earlier. Although Price wrote several pieces with Lovecraft.

In his later years, Price was a steady contributor to fanzines and wrote about his fellow writers, their works, and the early pulp days. When most of the pulps vanished in the early 1950s, Price turned to odd jobs that included among them, photographing weddings and practicing astrology. Forced into mandatory retirement at age 70, Price commented, "Being a 'senior citizen' was an unbearably stupid prospect, so I went back to writing, and I am doing a better job than I did during my earlier years."

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