Anne continued her vampire saga in The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil. These novels, collectively known as "The Vampire Chronicles," have great mainstream and cult followings and are widely assigned in high school and collegiate English and philosophy classes. Her latest novel, Vittorio The Vampire, follows Pandora and The Vampire Armand, continuing Rice's new series of vampire tales. Rice is also the author of The Witching Hour, the first book in a trilogy about a clan of witches (the other novels in this series are Lasher and Taltos). Her other works of fiction include The Feast of All Saints, Cry to Heaven and The Mummy; the contemporary erotic novels Exit to Eden and Belinda (written under the name Anne Rampling); and stylized, pornographic novels known as "The Beauty Books," which include The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release (written under the name A.N. Roquelaure). Her books have sold over 100,000,000 copies worldwide.
Rice wrote the screenplay for Interview with the Vampire and has also written a screenplay for The Witching Hour.
She was born in New Orleans and lives there now with her husband, the poet and artist Stan Rice.
On 9 December 2002, Anne's husband, Stan Rice, died aged 60 following a four month struggle with a tumor in his brain.
From annerice.com:
"I was married to Stan for 41 years. As far as I'm concerned, he died young. I don't even know what the world is going to be like for me without Stan. It's been 'Stan and Anne' for so long that I have no concept of it. I'll go on writing, of course. Because one of the great things about being a writer is that you can write in sorrow, in grief, and anguish. You can use your emotions to make something constructive, and something perhaps that will remove these things for someone else.
"In 1973, when I wrote INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, my beautiful husband Stan was the inspiration for the vampire Lestat. He had Stan's long blond hair and blue eyes and feline grace that inspired Lestat's charm and magnetism and mesmerizing movement. And now, for the first time in 41 years, I'm alone. I'm a woman alone. It's a very strange feeling."
Facts about Anne!!
Born, Howard Allen O'Brien, Oct. 4, 1941 in New Orleans, LA.
Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and is the author of twenty-one novels. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was published in 1976 and has gone on to become one of the bestselling novels of all time. It was in Interview with the Vampire that Rice first introduced her vampire, the Vampire Lestat, to the world.
She choose the name first name "Anne" as a child.
She married Stan Rice in 1961.
Daughter Michele was born in 1966. Michele dies of Leukemia at the age of 5.
Anne writes her first published novel, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973. Selling it to Knopf the next year.
Son Christopher was born in 1978. Christopher will go on to become an accomplished novelist in his own right.
