Their lives were perfect till tragedy struck. Anne wrote another short story, ‘‘Interview with the Vampire,’’ along with the novella Katherine and Jean that would later serve as her master’s thesis. Michele was born to them in 1966 (Smith, 1996).Īnne was in graduate school, and Stan was teaching creative writing at San Francisco State University when he won a poetry grand and they moved to Berkeley. They graduated in 1964, Anne in political science and Stan in creative writing. Anne wrote her first unpublished novels, The Sufferings of Charlotte and Nicholas and Jean. This had a tremendous impact on the writings of Anne. They lived in Haight-Ashbury and watched the growth of the hippie movement. They were married in Texas, and Stan returned to San Francisco with Anne so that they could take night courses at the University of San Francisco. They exchanged mails for two years until Stan proposed by a special delivery letter in 1961. It was only when Anne went away that Stan realized how deeply he loved her. Anne wanted to move to a city where should both go to school and work. Stan recollects Anne as being a bright and vivacious girl. It was in Texas that she met the love of her life, a boy who worked on the school paper named Stan Rice. She lost her faith in religion and she had to move to Texas with her father. Everything changed in 1956 when her mother died from alcoholism and Anne was just fourteen. Anne continued to write over the next ten years, writing a novella about two aliens from Mars when she was ten, and several plays by the time she was twelve. She craved the security of the church because there was little security at home and her mother was an alcoholic. When she was nine, she learned about vampires for the first time when she saw the film Dracula’s Daughter.ĭue to her strong religious convictions she initially wanted to become a saint but was unsure about the details. Anne not only read a lot but she also went to the movies, especially the horror films she loved. Anne’s mother was a religious woman who was very creative and who encouraged creativity in her children. Her mother said “If she wants to be Anne, let her be Anne” (Smith, 1996). On her first day of school in 1947, when her teaching nun asked what her name was, she said ‘‘Anne’’ before her mother could reply. She started writing stories very early in school. New Orleans gave her both Catholicism and voodoo, a potent inspiration for any beginning writer. Alphonsus Church, the same church which later proved to be the setting in which all the Mayfair witches were baptized in Anne Rice novels. Her parents gave her this name because they thought it was a powerful name would be an asset to her future. Her Early DaysĪnne Rice was born on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans as Howard Allen O’Brien.
Her most popular novels, such as Interview with the Vampire (1976) and The Witching Hour (1990), though situated within the gothic narrative tradition, go far beyond the conventions of the formula and explore important contemporary social issues (Hoppenstand and Browne, 1996). What is interesting is that Anne Rice’s immensely popular horror fiction attracts both the academic reader and the general reader with equal ease.
Her works both entertain and challenge readers. The novels of Anne Rice explore the realms of good and evil, love and alienation, pageantry and ritual, each a reflection of her own moral journey. Her books are rich tapestries of history, belief, philosophy, religion, and compelling characters that force the readers to see beyond the physical world one perceives. Her faith in Christianity has been restored and she now writes books on Jesus Christ.Īnne Rice is one of the successful and prolific authors of America who is well known for her epic stories that deal with both real and supernatural worlds. Anne Rice returned in to New Orleans during her later years and continued writing.
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Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles was a successful series of eleven novels. She wrote sexual erotica such as Exit to Eden in 1985 and Belinda in 1986The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, which was published in 1983, Beauty’s Punishment in 1984, and Beauty’s Release in 1985. Anne tasted success with her book Interview with the Vampire in 1976 which was followed by The Feast of All Saints (1979) and Cry to Heaven (1980). She married Stan Rice, a poet and in 1978 had her first son Christopher and later had a daughter Michelle.
Born in New Orleans, Anne Rice grew up with strong religious convictions, till her mother’s death in 1956, when she lost her faith. Anne Rice is one of the most famous and successful writers of America who is well known for her works of fiction dealing with supernatural elements combined with elements of history and religion.