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'''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.  

'''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.

: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. [http://www.annerice.com/Called-Editions.html]

:In 2002 Anne Rice startled her readers when she announced her return to the Catholic faith of her youth after decades of atheism.  She fulfilled her contract for a last vampire novel and has since taking up the cause of writing novels about Jesus.  Her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, completed in 2005, is the first of a trilogy that she plans.<ref>http://www.annerice.com/Called-Editions.html</ref>  She has stated that she will not write any more of the dark novels she was known for.   

==Life==

==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.

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 had renounced her religious upbringing by her teenage years.  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==

==Faith==