Mary Victoria Price (born April 27, 1962) is an American public speaker and the author of the memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self and Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. She currently spends much of her time traveling and speaking about the life of her father, Vincent Price, as well as discussing self-development topics.

Victoria Price
Born
Mary Victoria Price

(1962-04-27) April 27, 1962 (age 62)
Alma materWilliams College
Occupations
  • Writer
  • public speaker
Parents
RelativesV. B. Price (half-brother)

Early life

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Price was born April 27, 1962, at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, to actor Vincent Price and his second wife, Mary Grant Price. She has one older half-sibling, Vincent Barrett Price, born in 1940 to Vincent Price's first wife Edith Barrett.[1] Victoria Price has a bachelor's degree in art history and theater from Williams College.

Career

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Price has taught at the University of New Mexico, the New Mexico Highlands University, and the Philos School, an alternative arts-and-humanities school in Santa Fe.[2]

She has worked as an interior designer, and has appeared on HGTV and in many design publications.[3] She is also an interfaith/interspiritual minister, having been ordained in 2016. She is an inspirational speaker, giving talks internationally on creativity, spirituality, wellness, art and design, as well as on the life of her father and other topics.[4][5][6] She is on the board of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California.[7]

She also appeared in the movie Edward Scissorhands, her father's last feature film, where she played a newscaster.[8]

Selected publications

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Victoria Price with a photo of her father, Vincent Price, superimposed in a nearby position at the British Museum in London.

Price is the author of the inspirational memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self.

In 1999, Price wrote Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography,[9] and released an updated version with changed acknowledgements in 2014.[10]

She has also written the preface for a 50th anniversary edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes,[11] a cookbook written by Vincent Price and his wife Mary.[12]

Personal life

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Price came out as a lesbian in the 1980s. She is interested in Native American and African art, and horseback riding.[13] She has her own blog, Daily Practice of Joy.[14]

Although Victoria is the daughter of a horror icon, she is not a fan of horror films, but she is a fan of horror film fans.[15][16] She often attends and speaks at horror conventions.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Price, Victoria (2014). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. Open Road Distribution. pp. 162, 362, 367. ISBN 978-1497649446.
  2. ^ Williams, Candy. "Price's daughter marks 50th anniversary of horror master's cookbook". TribLive.
  3. ^ Matusik, Angela. "Navajo's Dream Weavers". Departures. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "Museum News". Poe Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  5. ^ Price, Victoria. "Tell me, what do you have in your house?". TEDx. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "Vincentennial:The Legacy of Vincent Price". Missouri Humanities Council. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  7. ^ "Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation Board and Staff". Vincent Price Art Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  8. ^ "Edward Scissorhands (1990)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  9. ^ Price, Victoria (1999). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312242735.
  10. ^ Price, Victoria (2014). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. Open Road Distribution. ISBN 978-1497649446.
  11. ^ Price, Mary; Price, Vincent (2015). A Treasury of Great Recipes: 50th anniversary edition. Dover Publications, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1606600726.
  12. ^ Stokes, Stephanie (October 31, 2014). "'Master of Menace' A Lover Of Cuisine". WABE. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  13. ^ Foege, Alec. "The Tell-Tale Heart". People. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  14. ^ "Daily Practice of Joy". dailypracticeofjoy.com. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  15. ^ Price, Victoria (December 4, 2013). "Victoria Price: To Horror Fans Everywhere!". Vincent Price official website. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  16. ^ Rodgers, Vernor (October 17, 2013). "Vincent Price's extraordinary life as recalled by his daughter Victoria". Inside Social. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  17. ^ Price, Victoria (May 31, 2015). "A Love Letter: To all the Vincent Price fans I have met at horror conventions". Daily Practice of Joy. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
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