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Anne Rice Biography

Writer

In 1976 Anne Rice published Interview With The Vampire, and within a decade the book became the best-known vampire novel since Bram Stoker's Dracula. She has written several novels exploring sexual and romantic desire and the spiritual world, and is a famous New Orleans resident with a devoted fan base. Rice has also published novels under the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure. In 1998 she had a reawakening of her Catholic faith and abandoned the dark subjects that made her famous. Her 2005 book, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, tells the tale of Jesus as a boy.

Rice is a guest star in our loop They Played Vampires.

Blog posts mentioning Anne Rice:

Four Good Links

The Official Anne Rice Web Site

Her life, her books, her pictures, her opinions

Anne Rice Interviews

Two audio interviews from the '80s

Anne Rice on SALON

A diary of her tour for Servant of the Bones

Anne Rice on Christianity

2005 account of her spiritual change

Vital Stats

Birth

4 October 1941
(age 68)

Birthplace

New Orleans, Louisiana

Death

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Best Known As

Author of Interview With The Vampire