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ANNE RICE

Anne Rice is the internationally bestselling author of eight previous volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, including Interview with the Vampire (filmed with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt), The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned (recently filmed, starring Stuart Townsend and Aaliyah), as well as The Vampire Armand, Merrick and Blood and Gold. Her other numerous fiction includes the shorter novels, Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire, as well as Servant of the Bones, Violin and Feast of All Saints.

She was born in New Orleans and lives there now with her husband, the poet and artist Stan Rice.

Photograph from The Vampire Armand jacket cover.
Mini-biography from Blackwood Farm jacket cover.

Addendum to Mini-biography

On 9 December 2002, Anne's husband, Stan Rice, died aged 60 following a four month struggle with a tumor in his brain.

From annerice.com:

"I was married to Stan for 41 years. As far as I'm concerned, he died young. I don't even know what the world is going to be like for me without Stan. It's been 'Stan and Anne' for so long that I have no concept of it. I'll go on writing, of course. Because one of the great things about being a writer is that you can write in sorrow, in grief, and anguish. You can use your emotions to make something constructive, and something perhaps that will remove these things for someone else...

"In 1973, when I wrote INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, my beautiful husband Stan was the inspiration for the vampire Lestat. He had Stan's long blond hair and blue eyes and feline grace that inspired Lestat's charm and magnetism and mesmerizing movement. And now, for the first time in 41 years, I'm alone. I'm a woman alone. It's a very strange feeling."

Rest in Peace.