Anne Rice, writer and author of the famous book “Interview with the Vampire” dies

Rice passed away Saturday night, her son Christopher said in a message on her Twitter account and on the writer’s Facebook page, where she had more than a million followers. Christopher Rice, who is also a writer, noted that the author’s death came “almost nineteen years later” than that of her husband, poet and artist Stan Rice. In his final hours, I sat by his hospital bed in awe of his accomplishments and courage, flooded by memories of a life that took us from the mist-covered hills of San Francisco Bay to the magical streets of New Orleans and the twinning views of Southern California.” he pointed out in his message. Anne Rice, whose real name was Howard Allen Frances O’Brien, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 4, 1941, into a household of Irish Catholic descent made up of Howard O’Brien and Katherine Allen O’ Brien.According to her website, she earned a Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. it was his native New Orleans that was the source of inspiration for his novels, recalls the biography that appeared on his website. Considered the queen of gothic horror, she used the immortal figure of the vampire as a way to ease grief over the tragic loss of her daughter Michelle, who died at the age of five from leukemia. Christopher Rice, his second son, was born in 1978.Su first play, which he wrote in five weeks, was “Interview with a Vampire”, published in 1976 and its plot was taken to the cinema in 1994 with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas as protagonists. It was the first book in his series of Vampire Chronicles, which closed in 2018 with “The Blood Community.” Rice, one of the most prolific American novelists, also published a trilogy on the occasion of her return to Christianity, in which they highlighted “The Messiah. The Jewish Child” (2005) and “The Messiah. Road to Cana” (2008). The writer, also known for her work “The Queen of the Damned” (1988), will be buried in the family mausoleum of Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony, her son announced in the message, without specifying a date. In addition, he anticipated that next year there will be an event open to the public in which friends, readers and followers will celebrate the life of Anne Rice.

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