Anne Rice

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Anne Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien on 4 October 1941 as the second daughter of a Catholic Irish-American family. Her early years were spent in New Orleans, Louisiana, forming the background of most of her stories. After which, she lived in East Haven, Connecticut until the death of her sister Alice Borchardt, who also pursued to be a gothic writer.

Her name Anne came out during her first day of school when a nun asked her of her name and blurted it out until her mother let it go without correcting her for she knew that her daughter was so conscious of her unusual given name.

In 1958, her father took up a residence at Richardson, Texas after the death of her mother three years before. There she attended Richardson High School and met Stan Rice whom she married later. She then took up her first collegiate years in Texas Women's University in Denton and then moved with her husband to San Francisco, where she attended State University and obtained BA Political Science. "I'm a totally conservative person", she later told the New York Times (November 7, 1988). "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." She would not return to New Orleans until 1989.

She then had a daughter, Michelle, who later died of Leukemia at the age of 6.

Her first book, Interview with the Vampire was then completed in 1973 and was published in 1976. Nine more books then followed and this series was titled The Vampire Chronicles. These were written while they lived in Berkeley before their son, Christopher, was born. Her novels published then were counted 28.

In 1989, Anne and Stan lived in New Orleans by buying a Garden District Greek Revival house and Anne owned many building in that district that time. Interview with the Vampire was then made into a movie and The Feast of All Saints was then made into a mini-series.

Anne then returned to the Catholic church in 1998 and decided to concentrate her writings on Christ in 2002. One of these books was Christ the Lord and Out of Egypt which were published this year.

Stan Rice then died in 2002 after a couple of months being diagnosed with brain cancer. His paintings would hopefully soon find home and his diaries are now edited.

Anne now lives and works in the California desert, a few hours drive from her son, Christopher, who lives and works in West Hollywood.