Anne Rice
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 Anne Rice facts

• She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat
• Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002
• Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life there before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco
• She was raised in an observant Catholic family, but became an agnostic as a young adult
• She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s
• In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return to Catholicism, Rice published the novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus
• Several years later she distanced herself from organized Christianity, citing disagreement with the Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained "central to [her] life
• " However, she now considers herself a secular humanist
• Rice's books have sold nearly 100 million copies, placing her among the most popular authors in recent American history
• While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she became more popular with critics and readers in the 1980s