A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
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Life and Works: Anne Rice (born October 4, 1941) is one of America's most read and celebrated authors, well known for weaving the visible and supernatural worlds together in epic stories that both entertain and challenge readers. Her books are rich tapestries of history, belief, philosophy, religion, and compelling characters that examine and extend our physical world beyond the limits we perceive. Anne Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien on october 4, 1941, the second of four daughters in a Catholic Irish-American family. Mr. O'Brien had been ridiculed as a youth for having a "feminine" name, and suffered autorbusnting and teasing by his peers. Apparently this played a part in the naming of their daughter. Anne became "Anne" on her first day of school, when a nun asked her what her name was. She blurted out "Anne" immediately, and her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her, knowing how self-conscious her daughter was of her real name. Anne's mother died in July of 1956 when Anne was 14 years old. Her father eventually remarried and in 1958 he was transferred by the postal service for which he worked, to Richardson, Texas. Anne, then 16, was extremely opposed to the move, but it was there, at Richardson High School, that she met the man she would eventually marry - Stan Rice. Anne Rice met Stan in journalism class. They were both new to Richardson, Stan having transferred from Dallas, and being a year younger than Anne, a junior. He moved to sit next to Anne, from the front of the class where he had been sititbusng, telling her that he was tired of being up there alone. It wasn't until that summer, after Anne had graduated, that her and Stan began to date. In the fall of 1959 Rice began classes at Texas Woman's College in Denton, while Stan was in his senior year of high school. In 1960 Stan went on to Denton but Anne had decided to move to San Francisco, making their contact consist solely of correspondence. The relationship survived, and in 1961 Anne received a telegram from Stan proposing marriage, and on October 14th of the same year, they were married in Texas, shortly after moving to San Francisco to settle in Haight-Ashbury. Her works have had a major influence on the "Goth" movement, and she has also published a number of works with sado-masochistic themes. She is the mother of novelist Christopher Rice. The Rice's took courses at San Francisco State University, and both earned bachelors degrees in 1964. Stan had already been receiving recognition for his poetry, and started the doctorate program at UC Berkeley, but dropped out and returned to SFSU. Anne earned a BA in Political Science and Creative Writing, and in 1965 published a short story in Transfer called "October 4, 1948." Her daughter, Michele, was born on September 21, 1966. Anne's sister, Alice Borchardt, is also a noted genre author. In 1969 they moved to Berkeley, where Interview with the Vampire would be born, in the form of a short story. Anne also wrote a novella "Katherine and Jean" which publishers began to show interest in. In 1970 Michele was diagnosed with leukaemia. On August 5th, 1972, Michele died of her disease. The Rice's spent the next few years in an alcoholic haze, mourning their loss. In 1973 Rice turned the Interview With the Vampire into a novel in a five week period. It was rejected when she submitted it, but in 1974, while attending a Writer's Conference in Squaw Valley, Anne met agent Phyllis Seidel, who agreed to represent her. The book was finally published in 1976. Rice was born and spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana, the city that forms the background against which most of her stories take place. Known for her avid interest in art and culture, she and her family occasionally took trips overseas to study the art later mentioned in her stories. More recently, following the death of her husband Stan Rice, she has relocated to the Coachella Valley, California area to be nearer her son, Christopher. After spending most of her adult life as a self described atheist, Rice returned to the Roman Catholic Church in 1998, and she is currently working on a trilogy about the life of Jesus. Rice has also published erotica under the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure, the latter of which was used primarily for more adult-oriented material. Her fiction is often described as lush and descriptive, and her characters' sexuality is fluid, often displaying homoerotic feelings towards each other. She also deals with philosophical and historic themes, weaving them in to the dense pattern of her books, and giving them a highly intellectual, if not highly literary, content. To her admirers, Rice's books are among the best in modern popular fiction, considered by some to possess those elements that create a lasting presence in the literary canon. To her critics, her novels are baroque, "low-brow pulp" and redundant. In 1994, Neil Jordan directed a motion picture adaption of,Interview with the Vampire based on the story, but with some minor changes. A second movie was later made, inspired by the second and third books in the original Vampire Chronicles series. The title was that of the third book, The Queen of the Damned. A film named Exit to Eden based loosely on Rice's book of the same name starred Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd. Rice has Type 1 diabetes. This was discovered when she went into a diabetic coma in December 1998. She is an advocate for people to get tested for diabetes. Because of a lifelong battle with her weight as well as depression due to the long illness and subsequent death of her husband, Rice's weight ballooned to 254 pounds. Tired of dealing with sleep apnea, limited mobility, and other weight-related problems, she had gastric bypass surgery on 2003. On January 30, 2004 Rice announced her plans to leave New Orleans to move the suburb of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She had already put the largest of her three homes in Uptown New Orleans up for sale, and plans to sell the other two. She cited living alone since the death of her husband and her son's moving out of state as the reasons. "Simplifying my life, not owning so much, that's the chief goal", said Rice. In spring 2005, after husband Stan Rice passed away from a brain tumor, Anne moves to La Jolla, California, where she currently resides. She calls her new home "Paradise West". Some have speculated that Rice also wished for more privacy from the constant attentions of her fans, who were known to camp out in front of her house. Sometimes, up to 200 or more would gather to see her leave for church on Sundays. In October of 2005, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord". Her first novel in the genre is called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and is the first in a trilogy that will chronicle the life of Christ. |
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Selected works: The Vampire Chronicles:
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