Anne Rice (1941–2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles, a gothic fiction series that launched with her 1976 debut novel, Interview with the Vampire.
She was married to the poet and artist <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/67761/stan-rice/">Stan Rice</a> from 1961 until his death in 2002, and is the mother of author Christopher Rice.
She is also often credited in the copyright as <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/40297/anne-o-brien-rice/">Anne O'Brien Rice</a>
Real name: née Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Pen names:
• <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/67854/a-n-roquelaure/">A. N. Roquelaure</a>
• Anne Rampling
Series:
• Christ the Lord
• <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/67855/erotic-adventures-of-sleeping-beauty/">Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty</a> (writing as A. N. Roquelaure)
• <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/94495/lives-of-the-mayfair-witches/">Lives of the Mayfair Witches</a>
• <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/94513/new-tales-of-the-vampires/">New Tales of the Vampires</a>
• Ramses the Damned
• Songs of the Seraphim
• <a href="https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/40294/the-vampire-chronicles/">The Vampire Chronicles</a>
• The Wolf Gift Chronicles