Author. She has received much acclaim as an American author of the 20th century, who wrote best-selling historical novels with the setting mainly in the low country of Southeast Georgia. With many of her novels on the New York Times Best Seller list, she sold over 40 million copies. Born into an upper-middle-class household of Anna Davidson and Wesley Price, she admitted that her mother inspired her to write. Never graduating from college, she attended Ohio University majoring in English; transferring in her junior year to Northwestern University in Illinois to study Dentistry, and finally, three years later, transferring to the University of Chicago to major in Philosophy. As a 23-year-old, she was hired by NBC to be part of the writing team for daytime radio series. After receiving on-the-job experience, she successfully started her own company in 1945, Eugenia Price Productions, with her own daily radio daytime serials, being the writer, director, producer, and host. She co-hosted the Christian radio show "Unshackled," became a nationwide inspirational public speaker, and, by 1962, had written eleven inspirational books. Starting in 1961, she researched Rev. Anson Greene Phelps Dodge Jr. of St. Simons Island, Georgia, who, in 1884, started the repairs to the island's Christ Church, which was damaged during the American Civil War. Bringing much attention to this quiet, low-country part of the United States, her trilogy was written between 1962 and 1969, with the first "The Beloved Invader," set on Georgia's Golden Isles dating from 1790s to the 1920s. Her books first were about Rev. Dodge's ancestors, his wives, and other people he knew, but later about fictional characters. In 1965, she relocated her home from Chicago to St. Simons Island, remaining there for thirty-one years. She became an activist for preserving the island's marshes, beaches, flora, and wildlife from industrial growth, along with preserving historical points of interest such as the lighthouse and Fort Frederica. She and Joyce Blackburn., an award-winning author of children's books, established a nonprofit foundation which funds grants and scholarships, supports charities, and started programs to support writing. She toured promoting her books, proclaiming her Christian faith and her love for the American South. Of the 21 books that every Georgian should read, according to the Georgia Center for Books, her last novel of the first trilogy, "The Lighthouse," is among those listed. Starting in 1977, she wrote a Florida Trilogy about the city of Saint Augustine telling the saga of Don Juan McQueen. Her mind's eye had a wonderful way with words, creating romantic scenes of bygone eras with southern belles in long dresses, resting under a shade trees decorated with hanging Spanish moss. In 1988, she was the recipient of the Governor's Award in the Humanities. She was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2017. She died of congestive heart failure. Her last book, which was on the New York Times Best Seller list, "The Waiting Time," was published after her death in 1997.