Anne Rice was an American author best known for her book series Interview With A Vampire. According to a post on her FaceBook page authored by her son Christopher Rice, she died of complications from a stroke 20 years after the death of her husband Stan Rice in 2002.
She leaves behind a legacy of writers, with her son Christopher Rice specializing in crime and horror, and her sister Alice Borchard in historical fiction and fantasy. Along with Christopher, she also co-authored the book Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra, a historical horror novel serving as a sequel to her book The Mummy.
Influenced by authors such as Virginia Woolfe, Stephen King, and Shakespeare, she leaves behind a large body of work that will serve as an influence for many a future author.
She didn’t just write books, Rice also wrote the story for a television pilot titled ‘Rag and Bone,’ and had her book Interview With A Vampire turned into a movie starring Tom Cruise and introducing Kristen Dunst.
She also wrote erotic novels under the pseudonyms A. N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling after receiving bad reviews regarding the first Interview With A Vampire novel.