On her first day of Catholic School, when the Nun asked her name, she just said Anne because she thought it was a pretty name. She answers with.her father's name was Howard, and her mother thought that giving her a man's name would give her advantages in the world as she grew up. Several of her novels have been adapted to film. They had two children, one who died of leukemia at fie years old, and a son Christopher, who is also an author. She was married to her husband, Stan Rice, for 41 years until he passed from brain cancer in 2002.

Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies.thus, her immense popularity as an American author. She distanced herself several years later from organized religion, siting disagreement with their position on social issues, but vowed her lasting faith in God. In the mid- 2000's, she returned to Catholicism and published novels that were fiction about some happenings in the life of Jesus. In the days before the Civil War in the old French Quarter of New Orleans there lived the GENS DE COULEUR, the Free People of Colour, a fierce and proud. With that success, she began writing sequels to that novel in the 1980's. She was very successful coming right out with her first novel.Interview with the Vampire.

Rice was raised in a Catholic family, but chose to be an agnostic as a young adult. Somehow, being born in New Orleans seems fitting for an author most famous for her popular series of novels entitled, The Vampire Chronicles. She was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brian in 1941 in New Orleans. It seems pretty ironic for an author to change from Gothic fiction, erotica, then to Christian literature, but American author, Anne Rice did just that. The Feast of All Saints is one of the most beautifully written books I have read.

The feast of all saints by anne rice