Rice was broadly recognized for her bestselling e-book “Interview with the Vampire.” Her son Christopher Rice introduced the loss of life late Saturday on Fb and Twitter.
Anne Rice, the gothic novelist broadly recognized for her bestselling novel “Interview With the Vampire,” died late Saturday on the age of 80.
Rice died resulting from issues from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice introduced on her Fb web page and his Twitter web page.
“In her ultimate hours, I sat beside her hospital mattress in awe of her accomplishments and her braveness,” Christopher Rice wrote within the assertion.
Anne Rice was the writer of the 1976 novel “Interview With the Vampire,” which was later tailored, with a script by Rice, into the 1994 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. It is also set to be tailored once more in an upcoming TV collection on AMC and AMC+ set to premiere subsequent yr.
“Interview With the Vampire,” wherein reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, was Rice’s first novel however over the following 5 a long time, she would write greater than 30 books and promote greater than 150 million copies worldwide. 13 of them have been a part of the “Vampire Chronicles” begun together with her 1976 debut.
Born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien in 1941, she was raised in New Orleans, the place lots of her novels have been set. Her father labored for the postal service however made sculptures and wrote fiction on the aspect. Her older sister, Alice Borchardt, additionally wrote fantasy and horror fiction. Rice’s mom died when Rice was 15.
Raised in an Irish Catholic household, Rice wrote about her fluctuating non secular journey, together with the 2008 memoir “Known as Out of Darkness: A Religious Confession.” However in 2010, she introduced that she was now not Christian, saying “I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial contraception.”
“I believed for a very long time that the variations, the quarrels amongst Christians didn’t matter loads for the person, that you just reside your life and keep out of it. However then I started to comprehend that it wasn’t a straightforward factor to do,” Rice advised The Related Press then. “I got here to the conclusion that if I didn’t make this declaration, I used to be going to lose my thoughts.”
Rice was anticipated to be interred throughout a personal ceremony at a household mausoleum in New Orleans on an undisclosed date, in accordance with the assertion. A public celebration of life was to happen subsequent yr.
Learn the total assertion on Rice’s loss of life right here:
