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She was born and has spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana. This city forms the background against which most of her stories take place.
Rice has also published under the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
She completed her first book, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973 and published it in 1976. In 1994, Neil Jordan directed a motion picture by the same name based on the story.
Rice has adult onset diabetes mellitus. This was discovered when she went into a diabetic coma in December of 1998. She has since been treating the condition with insulin, and is an advocate for people to get tested for diabetes.
On 30 January, 2004 Rice announced her plans to leave her home town of New Orleans, to move to a gated home in the suburb of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She had already put the largest of her three homes in Uptown New Orleans up for sale, and plans to sell the other two. She cited living alone since the death of her husband and her son's moving out of state. "Simplifying my life, not owning so much, that's the chief goal", said Rice, "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in the true sense." Some have speculated that Rice also wished more privacy from the constant attentions of her fans, some of whom were known to camp out in front of her house, sometimes up to 200 or more would gather to see her leave for Church on Sundays.
Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" books:
Books
New Tales of the Vampires (Other vampire tales which are not within the main sequence):
Lives of the Mayfair Witches:
Other books by Anne Rice:
Work written under the pseudonym Anne Rampling:
Work written under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure (for info on all three books, see The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty)