Author. She was an American novelist, who was perhaps the most famous author of gothic fiction of her generation. She is best known for her series of novels "The Vampire Chronicles." Two books from the "The Vampire Chronicles" were subsequently made into films. Interview with the "Vampire" starting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and "Queen of the Damned" starring Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend. Although she was raised in a strictly Catholic household, she became an agnostic in her early twenties. She began professionally writing and released her first book "Interview with the Vampire" in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. It is said that the death of her daughter, Michele, from leukemia, in 1972 was the catalyst for her beginning to write. In the mid-2000s, following a shock and publicized return to Catholicism, she 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, stating she has disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church's stances on social issues close to her heart, but pledging that faith in God remained "central to life." She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002. Besides their daughter Michele, the couple had son, Christopher, who, like his parents is also an author.
Author. She was an American novelist, who was perhaps the most famous author of gothic fiction of her generation. She is best known for her series of novels "The Vampire Chronicles." Two books from the "The Vampire Chronicles" were subsequently made into films. Interview with the "Vampire" starting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and "Queen of the Damned" starring Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend. Although she was raised in a strictly Catholic household, she became an agnostic in her early twenties. She began professionally writing and released her first book "Interview with the Vampire" in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. It is said that the death of her daughter, Michele, from leukemia, in 1972 was the catalyst for her beginning to write. In the mid-2000s, following a shock and publicized return to Catholicism, she 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, stating she has disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church's stances on social issues close to her heart, but pledging that faith in God remained "central to life." She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002. Besides their daughter Michele, the couple had son, Christopher, who, like his parents is also an author.
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