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[b]Anne Rice[/b] (born "Howard Allen O'Brien" on October 4, 1941), the 
second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, is an author of 
horror/fantasy stories, often about [about=vampire]vampire[/about]s, 
mummies and witches.  Her works have been a major influence on the 
[about=Goth]Goth[/about] youth subculture, and she has published 
several works with [about=Sadomasochism]sado-masochistic[/about] 
themes.  She was married to the late poet Stan Rice and is the mother 
of gay novelist Christopher Rice. A daughter, Michelle, died of 
leukemia at the age of 5 in 1972. 

She was born and has 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. 

Rice has also published under the pen names [b]Anne Rampling[/b] and 
[b]A.N. Roquelaure[/b], the latter of which was used primarily for 
more adult-oriented material, such as the "[about=The Claiming of 
Sleeping Beauty]Claiming of Sleeping Beauty[/about]" series. 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, giving them 
a high intellectual if not also a high literary content.  To her 
admirers, her 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. 

She completed her first book, "[about=Interview with the Vampire]
Interview with the Vampire[/about]", in 1973 and published it in 1976. 
In 1994, Neil Jordan directed a motion picture by the same name, 
loosely based on the story. A second movie was made, inspired by the 
third book in the original "Vampire Chronicles' " series, "Queen of 
the Damned", skipping the second one. Also, a rather funny film 
version of her adult book "Exit to Eden" was created, starring Rosie 
O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd. 

"Interview with the Vampire" is also an example of psychedelic 
literature, as Rice attributes her inspiration of Louis' "vampire 
eyes" experience of heightened awareness, and her morbid curiousity of 
the "after-death experience" to her own experiences with LSD. Rice has 
said that Claudia, the young girl in the book, was inspired by her 
late daughter.

Rice has adult onset diabetes mellitus. This was discovered when she 
went into a diabetic coma in December of 1998. Since treating the 
condition with insulin, 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 January 15, 2002.  

On 30 January, 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. "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in the 
true sense." 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. She is also very 
adamant about preventing any fan Fiction of her books.

Recently, Rice has faced widespread criticism for an incident in 
which, following negative reviews of her work on Amazon.com, she 
posted a long, angry reply to some of the users who had written the 
reviews. However, this attempt to dispel some criticism seems to have 
backfired, as some of the parties in question took it upon themselves 
to publicize the event, putting Rice's actions in a very negative 
light. Rice's reputation was severely damaged by the blow, and she 
faced ridicule on several Internet sites and [about=blogs]blogs
[/about] due to her actions.

Rice has also stirred up some anger in her fan base with her total 
banning of fan fiction about her characters on 
[url=http://www.fanfiction.net]FanFiction.net[/url], in contrast to 
other authors such as Terry Pratchett and J. K. Rowling, who have been 
more accepting.


[heading]Books 


Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" books:

[item] "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[item] "The Vampire Lestat" (1985)

[item] "The Queen of the Damned" (1988)

[item] "The Tale of the Body Thief" (1992)

[item] "Memnoch The Devil" (1995)

[item] "The Vampire Armand" (1998)

[item] "Merrick" (2000)

[item] "Blood and Gold" (2001)

[item] "Blackwood Farm" (2002)

[item] "Blood Canticle" (2003)

New Tales of the Vampires "(Other vampire tales which are not within 
the main sequence)":

[item]Pandora

[item]Vittorio the Vampire

Lives of the Mayfair Witches:

[item]The Witching Hour

[item]Lasher

[item]Taltos

Other books by Anne Rice: 

[item]Cry to Heaven

[item]The Feast of All Saints

[item]Servant of the Bones

[item]Violin (book)|Violin

[item]The Mummy

Short Fiction:

[item]"October 4th, 1948"

[item]"Nicholas and Jean"

[item]"The Master of Rampling Gate" (Vampire Story)

Work written under the pseudonym Anne Rampling:

[item]"Exit to Eden"

[item][about=Belinda (Anne Rice novel)]"Belinda"[/about]

Erotica written under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure (for info on all 
three books, see [about=The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty]The Claiming 
of Sleeping Beauty[/about])

[item]"[about=The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty]The Claiming of Sleeping 
Beauty[/about]"

[item]"Beauty's Punishment"

[item]"Beauty's Release"


[heading]External link


[item] [url=http://www.annerice.com]Anne Rice's official website[/url]



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