'''Anne Rice''' was born October 4, 1941 and inexplicably given a boy's name (Howard Allen O’Brien). Best known for writing ''Interview With the Vampire'', the first of a number of books on vampires; she also had a series on witches and under different pen names wrote books with pornographic themes. Rice was an avowed atheist. Rice, who sold 100 million books worldwide, had many fans fascinated by the journeys into dark themes. | '''Anne Rice''' was born October 4, 1941 and inexplicably given a boy's name (Howard Allen O’Brien). Best known for writing ''Interview With the Vampire'', the first of a number of books on vampires; she also had a series on witches and under different pen names wrote books with pornographic themes. Rice was an avowed atheist. Rice, who sold 100 million books worldwide, had many fans fascinated by the journeys into dark themes. |