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| Born | Howard Allen Frances O'Brien October 4, 1941 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | December 11, 2021 (aged 80) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University (BA, MA) |
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Anne Rice[1] (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).
Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life in the city before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco.[2] She was raised in an observant Catholic family but became an agnostic as a young adult. She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire (1976), while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return to Catholicism, she published the novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus. Several years later she distanced from organized Christianity, while remaining devoted to Jesus. She later considered herself a secular humanist.[3]
Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies, making her one of the best-selling authors of modern times.[4][5] While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she gained a better reception with critics in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60.[6][7] She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author.
Rice also wrote books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers. She authored erotic fiction under the pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a 1994 film.
- ^ Bowman, John S. (1995). The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 607. ISBN 0-521-40258-1.
- ^ Bay City News, Staff (December 14, 2021). "Before she found fame with vampires, author Anne Rice called Bay Area home". Local News Matters. Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Rice, Anne (April 14, 2013). "Anne Rice". Facebook. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
What do the words, "secular humanism," mean to you? Can you explain? (I am a secular humanist myself and I am thankful to be living in what I believe to be a secular humanist country, but I welcome your thoughts on this.)
- ^ "Anne Rice". FantasticFiction. Archived from the original on March 21, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
Her books sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.
- ^ "Author Anne Rice on Conversion". Preaching Today. Christianity Today. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Rice, Anne. "Phone Message Transcript: December 9, 2002". AnneRice.com. Anne Rice. Archived from the original on May 10, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ "Stan Rice Obituary". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012.