NMLP P-025636 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Long and Happy Life

Reynolds Price · Atheneum · 1962

US (Atheneum, 1962) is the true first; the UK edition (Chatto & Windus, 1962) follows. The complete short novel had appeared in Harper's Magazine shortly before book publication.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025636 for "A Long and Happy Life" by Reynolds Price (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025636, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).