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  <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">717</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">339</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[Anne Rice is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

She uses the psuedonym &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17553.Anne_Rampling&quot;&gt;Anne Rampling&lt;/a&gt; for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/437669.A_N_Roquelaure&quot;&gt;A.N. Roquelaure&lt;/a&gt; for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.
]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>New Orleans, Louisiana</hometown>  <born_at>10/04/1941</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Interview With the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>29880</ratings_count>
  <published>1976</published>  
  
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        <book id="43814">
  <title><![CDATA[The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>19784</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="43758">
  <title><![CDATA[The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.64</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>16838</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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        <book id="11901">
  <title><![CDATA[The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10185</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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        <book id="31336">
  <title><![CDATA[The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11017</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="31338">
  <title><![CDATA[Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>9571</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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        <book id="31332">
  <title><![CDATA[The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8419</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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        <book id="31340">
  <title><![CDATA[Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>3.60</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7823</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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        <book id="119091">
  <title><![CDATA[Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>3.63</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6842</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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        <book id="43781">
  <title><![CDATA[Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>3.55</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5468</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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