The woman died on Saturday, November 11, of post-stroke complications, and was surrounded by her family during this difficult time. She was 80 years old.
Her son, Christopher, confirmed the reports on Facebook, specifically the author’s public account. He wrote:
Dear Scripture, this is Anne’s son, Christopher, and it breaks my heart to bring you this sad news. In the early evening, Anne died of complications from a stroke. She left us almost to the day, nineteen years after the death of her father, her husband Stan. The enormity of our pain and mourning cannot be described. As a mother, she supported me unconditionally, taught me to follow my dreams, reject conformism and meet the dark voice of fear and self-doubt. As a writer, she taught me to cross the boundaries of literary genres and devote myself completely to my obsessive passion. In the last hour, I sat at her hospital bed and was full of admiration for her achievements and courage. Memories of the life she gave us flooded me, from the misty hills of the San Francisco Bay Area to the magical streets of New Orleans,
Anne Rice published her first novel Interview with the Vampire , in 1976. It became a bestseller and was adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kristen Dunst. Hailing from New Orleans, the author began writing sequels to her debut in 1980, and the series was dubbed The Vampire Chronicles . The sequel, The Queen of the Damned , was transferred to the glass screen in 2002.
Rice also wrote erotic fiction under the aliases of Anne Rampling and AN Roquelaure, including Escape to Eden , which was filmed in 1994. Her books have sold over 150 million copies, making her the most popular and best-selling author of our time.
Her husband for 41 years was Stan Rice, who died in 2002 of brain cancer. They had two children: Michele died at the age of five of leukemia and Christopher, who is also the author.