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Born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, LA. Anne Rice chose the first name "Anne" as a child. She married Stan Rice in 1961, and their daughter Michele was born in 1966. Sadly Michele died of leukemia at the age of 5.
Anne wrote her first published novel, Interview With A Vampire, in 1973. A son, Christopher, was born in 1978 (now an established author in his own right). After living in Texas and San Francisco, Anne settled in New Orleans. However, after Stan died from a brain tumor she moved to California, where she currently lives.
She has written under three names: her own, Anne Rampling, and A. N. Roquelaure. Under her own name, she has written The Vampire Chronicles series, The Mayfair Witches, the New Tales of the Vampires series, and numerous single novels, most recently Violin and is currently working on Born for Atlantis. Under Anne Rampling, she has published two works: Exit To Eden, and Belinda. Under A. N. Roquelaure, Anne published the Beauty Series. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.
She lives in Rancho Mirage, California.
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A Conversation with Anne Rice about Christ The Lord Out of Egypt
What led you to the idea of writing this book, and then to the actual
writing of it?
Obsession led me to write this book, and it's been that way with every book
I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a
desire to meet a challenge, and the book begins to grow. With Christ the Lord,
the obsession began in my earliest childhood in pure religious devotion. Though
I broke with my religion in college, I was still obsessed with religious
questions, the basics–Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? Why is it
so important that we lead good lives, even when we don't believe in an
afterlife? I never stopped with this obsessive thinking and exploring, and the
idea for the book–Jesus in his own words–was always there. I went back to the
Catholic Church in 1998, completely. In 2002, when I was sitting in church
before Mass one Saturday evening, I made the declaration to Christ that I would
do this book and nothing else. And the entire purpose, shape, tone–all of that
came together.
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