Anne Rice, 'Interview with the Vampire' author, dies at 80

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Anne Rice, 'Interview with the Vampire' author, dies at 80 (nbcnews.com)

Rice’s son Christopher said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.

Anne Rice, influential author of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80...

Born 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, the gothic horror “Interview with the Vampire,” which was published by Knopf in 1976.

The novel turns on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter. Michelle served as an inspiration for the child vampire Claudia...
 

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