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• Anne Rice is a best-selling author whose books have sold nearly 100 million copies. She is a contemporary Gothic novelist who recently converted to the Christian inspirational genre.CNN: Anne Rice Comes to Jesus (October 31, 2008) Her collection titled The Vampire Chronicles produced two movies, Interview with the Vampire starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and introducing Kirsten Dunst and Queen of the Damned starring Stuart Townsend and Aaliyah.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: October 4, 1941Bio: Anne Rice
  2. Origin: New Orleans, Louisiana
  3. Birth name: Howard Allen O'BrienBio: Anne Rice
  4. Modeled vampire child, Claudia, after her daughter
  5. Also used the pseudonyms A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling
  6. Son Christopher Rice is a popular contemporary author
  7. Husband was the poet and artist Stan Rice
  8. No longer works with editors
  9. Is newly devout CatholicCNN: Anne Rice Comes to Jesus (October 31, 2008)
  10. Wrote the Sleeping Beauty erotica series
  11. Penned Exit to Eden, which was made into a feature filmThe New York Times: Exit To Eden Information

• Quotes

  "Well, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do."

  "A writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible. You reach deep down and you bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t."

  "Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point."

  "I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord."

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Interview with the Vampire | Queen of the Damned | Out of Egypt | The Road to Cana | Vampires | Catholicism | Witchcraft | Demons | New Orleans | Christopher Rice

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