Anne Rice (1941–2021) was an American novelist, born in New Orleans, the city that haunts much of her work. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976), launched The Vampire Chronicles, featuring the vampire Lestat, which reshaped gothic fiction and sold in the tens of millions. She also wrote the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, novels about mummies and werewolves, historical fiction, and erotic novels under the pen names A. N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling.
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Anne Rice (1941–2021) was an American novelist, born in New Orleans, the city that haunts much of her work. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976), launched The Vampire Chronicles, featuring the vampire Lestat, which reshaped gothic fiction and sold in the tens of millions. She also wrote the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, novels about mummies and werewolves, historical fiction, and erotic novels under the pen names A. N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling.
