Anne Rice, influential author of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke.
She was 80.The author’s son Christopher revealed the news on Facebook and said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony.Earlier tonight, my mother, Anne Rice, passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke.
She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died.
Below is a statement I posted to her Facebook page moments ago.
pic.twitter.com/g2VAK2XZjc— Christopher Rice (@chrisricewriter) December 12, 2021Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice became renowned the world over as a writer of gothic fiction, with her books selling more than 150 million copies globally.
In the early 1970s, while grieving the death of her daughter Michelle, she began converting one of her stories into what became her first novel,
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