Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers. In addition to her vampire novels, Rice authored books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators.

While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she gained a better reception with critics in the 1980s. Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies, making her one of the best-selling authors of modern times. Several years later she distanced herself from organized Christianity, citing disagreement with the Catholic Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained 'central to life.' However, she later considered herself a secular humanist. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return to Catholicism, Rice published the novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus. She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire (1976), while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. She was raised in an observant Catholic family but became an agnostic as a young adult. The first book became the subject of a film adaptation- Interview with the Vampire (1994).īorn in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life in the city before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien Octo– December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature.

Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice