Anne Rice "The Vampire Chronicles" Signed Limited Edition 5-Volume Complete Matched Set, No. 1457 of 3,000 w/COA

One of the contemporary world's most popular and influential writers, Anne Rice uses her extraordinary literary skills to transform genre fiction - horror stories, erotica, and historical romance - into modern classics that illuminate the big questions of mortality and suffering for our time. Born in 1941 in New Orleans, the future author was christened Howard Allen O'Brien after her father but renamed herself Anne on her first day of Catholic school. In 1961, she married her high school sweetheart Stan Rice and moved to San Francisco. After the tragic death of her daughter in 1973, Rice transformed a short story, "Interview With The Vampire", into her first novel, which was published in 1976. She has published more than twenty novels (including titles under the pen names A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling), almost all of which have been bestsellers. Her credits include The Vampire Lestat, Exit to Eden, The Mummy and Violin.

 

In Anne Rice's classic debut novel, Interview With The Vampire, the 200 hundred year-old Louis Pointe du Lac tells how he became a vampire. After a devastating personal loss, Louis sought solace first in alcohol, then in the charismatic vampire Lestat's offer to join the "undead". But the "dark gift" of immortality does not free Louis from the grief and loneliness of living. While he has the power to satisfy his appetites, he cannot escape them, nor can he deny responsibility for his actions. A profound philosophical thriller, Interview With The Vampire transformed the Vampire of Bram Stoker's novel and Hollywood's movies into a myth for our age.

 

Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles, which revolve around the central character Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations—Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Queen of the Damned (2002).

Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life there before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco. She was raised in an observant Catholic family but became an agnostic as a young adult. She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. 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. Several years later she distanced herself from organized Christianity, citing disagreement with the Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained "central to [her] life." However, she now considers herself a secular humanist.

Rice's books have sold over 150 million copies, making her one of the most popular and best-selling authors of all-time. While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she became more popular with critics and readers in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators. 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. She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author.

In addition to her vampire novels, Rice has 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. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers. Rice has also authored erotic fiction under the pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a 1994 film.

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