Anne Rice

Anne Rice, born October 4, 1941 as Howard Allen O’Brien, is one of America's most celebrated authors. Her many books cover history, belief, philosophy and religion. She became famous for writing highly literate vampire novels and was labeled a Goth superstar.

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 back to Catholicism. Stan was also an atheist.

Conversion

In the 1990s, Rice found herself being pulled back to God. Atheism, it turns out, had been for her not 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.”

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

• Official Website