Biography
Price was born into a middle class family in Charleston, West Virginia. Her father, Walter was a dentist. 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 she graduated from high school, declared herself an atheist and decided to pursue a career in dentistry instead of writing. After attending Ohio University for two years, Eugenia Price became the only female student to be enrolled in Ohio's Northwestern Dentistry School. After studying dentistry for two years, she decided to pursue a career in writing again.
In 1939 she was hired by NBC to work on their radio series "In Care Of Aggie Horn", where she worked until 1942 when she left NBC and was hired by Procter & Gamble. In 1945 she formed her own production company named "Eugenia Price Productions" and continued to write serials for Procter & Gamble.
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