42:. Her father, Walter, was a dentist. At the age of ten Eugenia decided that she wanted to be a writer, an ambition encouraged by her mother Anna. She submitted a poem to her school's literary magazine. In 1932, Price graduated from high school, declared herself an atheist, and decided to pursue a career in dentistry instead of writing. After attending
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