Anne Rice

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Anne Rice, born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 is a popular American writer born in New Orleans, Louisiana in an Irish Catholic family. She currently lives in Southern California. She is best known for her book series about vampires, known As "The Vampire Chronicles". She has also written a series of books about a family of witches and under the names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure she wrote a small erotic fiction series taking the sleeping beauty fairy tale and giving it a twist.

Her first novel was Interview with the Vampire, written in 1973 and published in 1976. During the writing of the novel she experimented with LSD in an exploration of after-death experiences. The novel was written shortly after losing her daughter, Michelle, to leukemia. The character, Claudia, was based on her daughter.

Rice is known for he exploration of homoeroticism and sexual ambiguity in her novels. She has also incorporated the art and cultures of the various eras in which she has set her novels. This is particularly notable in Cry to Heaven in which she explored the castrati culture of Venice and Rome and in the novel The Feast of All Saints which explored the culture of the 'gens de couleur' in pre Civil War New Orleans.

Most recently, she has ventured into religious fiction and began writing about the life of Jesus Christ, following him from his early childhood. Her son, Christopher Rice, is also a writer. His freshman piece A Density of Souls got overall decent reviews. Her now deceased husband Stan Rice had a reputation as a poetic writer and also published a number of books.

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt starred in the moderately successful Interview with the Vampire, a movie based on Anne's first novel of the same name. The movie Queen of the Damned was based on her novel of the same name, the third book in the Vampire Chronicles. It also incorporated portions of the second novel in the series The Vampire Lestat.

Rice's relationship with her fans has not always been the best. Some speculate that her choice to move out of New Orleans was largely based on a desire to avoid devoted fans who would gather around her house. She is also adamantly opposed to the use of her characters in fan fiction, though other authors have been more lenient on the issue.

1 Movies based on her work
2 Bibliography
3 Quotes
4 External Links

Movies based on her work

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Queen of the Damned (Movie)
Feast of All Saints
Exit to Eden

Bibliography

As Anne Rampling

Belinda
Exit to Eden

As A. N. Roquelaure

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release

Vampire Chronicles

New Tales of the Vampires

Pandora
Vittorio the Vampire

Mayfair Witches

Other Novels

Christ the Lord
Cry to Heaven
The Feast of All Saints
The Mummy
Servant of the Bones
Violin

Nonfiction

Conversations with Anne Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work by Michael Riley, Anne Rice, Michael Riley, Michael H. Riley and Holly Johnson
The Gothic World of Anne Rice Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
Anne Rice by Bette B. Roberts
Anne Rice: A Critical Companion by Jennifer Smith

Quotes

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”

“. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”