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United States Anne Rice was an American author renowned for her Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction, best known for her iconic 'The Vampire Chronicles' series.
The Anne Rice estate and Dinner Partners LLC signed with InkWell Management and Literate for representation.
The Anne Rice estate and Dinner Partners LLC signed with InkWell Management and Literate for representation. Literate. is proud to announce representation of the Anne Rice Estate and Dinner Partners Productions, in partnership with InkWell Management.
AMC Networks acquired Anne Rice's major literary works, The Vampire Chronicles series and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, for film and television projects. AMC has acquired the rights to 18 of Anne Rice's books and will release 1-2 titles per year. AMC announced in May 2020 their acquisition of the Anne Rice catalog, which includes The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
Bonhams presented 'Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice'—a glimpse into the home and personal library of the author.
Howard Allen Frances O’Brien, known professionally as Anne Rice, was born on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the second of four daughters in an Irish Catholic family. Her father worked as a personnel executive for the U.S. Postal Service and was also a novelist. Her mother died from complications of alcoholism when Rice was fifteen. Rice later attended Texas Woman’s University and North Texas State College. She married poet Stan Rice in 1961. After moving to San Francisco, she earned a B.A. in political science in 1964 and an M.A. in creative writing in 1972 from San Francisco State University. Her daughter, Michele, died from leukemia at the age of five in 1972, a profound loss that influenced Rice’s writing.
Rice launched her professional writing career with the publication of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ in 1976. This novel, which drew inspiration from the grief she experienced after her daughter’s death, became the first in her bestselling “The Vampire Chronicles” series. The novel was sold to Alfred A. Knopf for a $12,000 advance. She expanded her literary work to include historical novels such as ‘The Feast of All Saints’ (1979) and ‘Cry to Heaven’ (1982), and erotic fiction under the pseudonyms Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure. Subsequent Vampire Chronicles novels, such as ‘The Vampire Lestat’ (1985) and ‘The Queen of the Damned’ (1988), solidified her reputation, with the latter reaching the #1 spot on ‘The New York Times’ Best Seller list. Many of her works have been adapted into films and television series, including the commercially successful 1994 film adaptation of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ and the 2001 television adaptation of ‘The Feast of All Saints’.
In 1988, Rice returned to New Orleans, which became a significant setting in her later novels, particularly ‘The Witching Hour’ (1990), the first in her ‘Lives of the Mayfair Witches’ series. She publicly returned to Catholicism in 1998 after a near-fatal diabetic coma, which led to the publication of ‘Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt’ (2005) and ‘Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana’ (2008), fictionalized accounts of Jesus’s life. While she later distanced herself from organized Christianity in 2010, she maintained her devotion to Christ. Rice’s work has sold over 100 million copies, making her one of the best-selling authors of modern times. She passed away on December 11, 2021, at the age of 80, due to complications from a stroke.
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