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"When you lose a child, you're telling yourself as an atheist, 'I'm never going to see that child again in any form.' That's a hell of a lot harder than a religion, which gives you the consolation that you will see that child again in heaven. It’s hard being an atheist. It’s tough."<ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/834109.html Anne Rice returns to the religion she knew as a child] Kansas City Star</ref> | "When you lose a child, you're telling yourself as an atheist, 'I'm never going to see that child again in any form.' That's a hell of a lot harder than a religion, which gives you the consolation that you will see that child again in heaven. It’s hard being an atheist. It’s tough."<ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/834109.html Anne Rice returns to the religion she knew as a child] Kansas City Star</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 03:46, November 23, 2008
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 and similar novels, she also wrote pornographic novels.
- In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. [1]
Life
She was raised by devoutly Catholic parents and she attended Catholic grade schools in New Orleans until her mother died. The family then moved to Texas. She married her childhood sweetheart, Stan Rice and moved to California. Both attended and graduated from San Francisco State University. In 1972, Stan and Anne lost their daughter, Michele, to adult leukemia just before her fifth birthday. Her husband Stan was a renowned poet and a painter earning multiple accolades. Stan died in 2002 of cancer.
Faith
She questioned her faith as a young person and became an atheist for 38 years before returning to Catholicism. Stan was also an atheist.
In the 1990s, Rice found herself being pulled back to God. For her, atheism had not been a true expression of logic and reason but an emptiness, even a torment.
"It’s a more strenuous path than the religious path, because you’re then going to say that there is no God, there is no reason (for anything), that people on Earth are the only (way) to provide any meaning. That’s a rough road to travel.
"When you lose a child, you're telling yourself as an atheist, 'I'm never going to see that child again in any form.' That's a hell of a lot harder than a religion, which gives you the consolation that you will see that child again in heaven. It’s hard being an atheist. It’s tough."[1]
Books
This is a list of some books written by Anne Rice:
- Interview With The Vampire
- The Feast of All Saints
- Cry to Heaven
- The Vampire Lestat
- The Queen of the Damned
- The Mummy
- The Witching Hour
- The Tale of the Body Thief
- Lasher
- Taltos
- Memnoch The Devil
- Servant of the Bones
- Violin
- Pandora
- The Vampire Armand
- Vittorio the Vampire
- Merrick
- Blood and Gold
- Blackwood Farm
- Blood Canticle
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
- Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
- Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (autobiographical)
External Links
References
- ↑ Anne Rice returns to the religion she knew as a child Kansas City Star