Anne Rice





Anne Rice

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October 04, 1941

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The 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 pseudonym Anne Rampling for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and A.N. Roquelaure for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.


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Weather is becoming ever more a mystery. It's chilly this morning in the California desert. There is snow on the nearby mountains. I can't recall it ever being this cold in late April. How bizarre.

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Average rating: 3.80 · 986,797 ratings · 25,158 reviews · 92 distinct works · Similar authors
Interview with the Vampire ...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 240,498 ratings — published 1976 — 112 editions
The Vampire Lestat (The Vam...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 91,006 ratings — published 1985 — 75 editions
The Queen of the Damned (Th...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 71,824 ratings — published 1988 — 68 editions
The Witching Hour (Lives of...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 51,476 ratings — published 1990 — 21 editions
The Tale of the Body Thief ...
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 46,280 ratings — published 1992 — 47 editions
Memnoch the Devil (The Vamp...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 42,611 ratings — published 1995 — 46 editions
The Vampire Armand (The Vam...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 36,602 ratings — published 1998 — 45 editions
Lasher (Lives of the Mayfai...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 32,407 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
Taltos (Lives of the Mayfai...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 28,709 ratings — published 1994 — 40 editions
The Mummy
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 24,914 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions
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Interviews

November 2008, Anne Rice
"The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. I feel a great surge of energy when I acknowledge that there is a world beyond this one. In my early novels I made up stories about forces that I sensed. Now I write about faith in something in which I completely believe. " ...More

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“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

Polls

The best character in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles:

Lestat
 
  246 votes, 55.4%

Armand
 
  55 votes, 12.4%

Louis
 
  50 votes, 11.3%

Marius
 
  44 votes, 9.9%

Other
 
  15 votes, 3.4%

Pandora
 
  13 votes, 2.9%

Akasha
 
  9 votes, 2.0%

Gabrielle
 
  7 votes, 1.6%

David
 
  5 votes, 1.1%

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