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Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.
Charles Price was an American author and educator. Price wrote the Hiwassee series, four works of historical fiction set in his native Western North Carolina.
Background
Charles Price was born on October 21, 1938 in Clyde, North Carolina, United States; the son of Edgar C. Price, a Methodist minister, and Gertrude Greene Price, a homemaker. He had one sister, Wanda Price Galloway, who was also a Methodist minister.
Education
Charles Price graduated from Charlotte Central High School (nowadays Garinger High School) in 1957 and High Point College (now High Point University) in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina.
Charles entered military service in June 1961, training at Fort Jackson, and then serving in the Army Reserve until May 1967. In 1966 - 1971 Charles was a news reporter and feature writer for The Greensboro Record. Then he became a staff planner for the Guilford County Planning Department in Greensboro.
In 1969 Price moved to Birmingham as a planning consultant for the Rust Engineering Co., but returned to Greensboro in 1971 as the Acting Director of the Guilford Planning Department. He worked with the Institute of Government and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1974 Charles moved to Washington, where for 19 years he worked as an urban planner, lobbyist, management consultant, and national association executive at Linton, Mields, Reisler & Cottone in Washington, D.C. In 1995 he moved to Burnsville in the mountains of Western North Carolina to devote full time to writing.
Charles F. Price was the author of eight published novels and one nonfiction work. Among his popular books are Season of Terror, Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War and The Cock's Spur.
Achievements
Price's book, Freedom’s Altar, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award as the best fiction of 1999 written by a North Carolina author. The Cock’s Spur received an Independent Publisher Book Award as one of the Ten Outstanding Books of 2001 and he was named Story Teller of the Year. It also won the Historical Fiction Award of the North Carolina Society of Historians. The last book in the series, Where the Water-Dogs Laughed garnered the Society of Historians’ award, was a nominee for a second Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a first finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award for historical fiction that year. An excerpt from this work was included in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A Guidebook, published by the North Carolina Arts Council in 2007.