Anne Rice in general

Anne Rice is one of the few women writing in the horror genre. She has left a striking mark on the face of vampire fiction with her vampire chronicles, but ther eis more to her work than this better known collection. Born in 1941, Rice married quite young (Stan Rice, whose poetry is often quoted in her books). In the 1960s, she had a daughter who died, leaving Rice with guilt and pain that would echo through her work. Her daughter became Claudia in "Interview with a Vampire " a girl destined to live as a child for all time, but who also meets a tragic fate. "Violin" includes a section about the loss of a child so close to Rice's ...  Read the complete review

Up until last week I associated Anne Rice with vampires and since I'm not a huge horror fan, I hadn't read more than a couple of her books. But that was then, and this is now. I needed something to read and found among my bosses books through which I was browsing, "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty". This was written about 20 years ago by Rice, using the Psudonym of A.N. Roquelaure and really could not contain less horror. It's a porn, sorry, "erotic" story of what really happened to Beauty when the Prince woke her from her deep sleep all those years ago (and let me tell you, it took slightly more than a light peck to revive her....). ...  Read the complete review

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans. She was christened Howard Allen O'Brien, after her father. Not surprisingly, she hated the name and from her first year at school chose to be known as Anne. Her father worked for the post office, and her mother, was an alcoholic and strict Catholic, and brought Anne up as a devout Catholic. Anne and her mother were very close, and she was devastated at aged 14 when her mother died. When she was 18, Anne decided to leave the Catholic church, as she was opposed to it's views on sex and death. Two years later, she met and married Stan Rice. They moved to California, where they both attended San Francisco State ...  Read the complete review

If you have not yet fallen upon an Anne Rice masterpeice I can only assume that you are not a fan of the fantasy/horror genre or that you have been living on Mars. Anne is an author with a unique style. Her character are almost solely anti-heros and her tales intertwine deliciously with one another. I started, somewhat accidentally with the second book in her infamous "Vampire Chronicles", called, "The Vampire Lestat". This gave me a hunger for more, upon checking the biblography I found that this was only one of the chronicles. I retraced my steps and began with the first book in the series, "Interview with the vampire". From that ...  Read the complete review

Howard Allen O’Brien was born in New Orleans on 4th October, 1941. She is best known as Anne Rice , and of course for her gripping novels about Vampires, which she calls the Vampire Chronicles. In 1957, her family moved to Texas, and here she met her husband, Stan Rice, at High School. They were married in 1961, and a year later moved to San Francisco. In 1966, Anne gave birth to their first child, Michelle, but she died of leukaemia in 1972. Anne wrote her very first novel in 1973, Interview With The Vampire, which took her 5 weeks to write incidentally. This was not published until 1976, after the novel was sold. In 1978, Anne gave birth ...  Read the complete review