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  1. Dec 15, 2021 · Anne Rice, the author responsible for Interview With The Vampire and Queen of the Damned passed away on 11 December 2021 after complications stemming from a stroke. She was 80. As well as the Vampire Chronicles books, Mrs Rice was responsible for two Christian fiction books.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Anne_RiceAnne Rice - Wikipedia

    Anne Rice. Anne Rice[1] (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles.

    • The Ghosts of New Orleans
    • Vampire Stories
    • Meeting with Jesus
    • Jesus’s Childhood
    • Penitent Sinner?

    She was born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien in 1941. Her father worked for the US Postal Service, but he also wrote stories and made sculptures. Her mother died when she was 15. She went to mass and communion every day and wanted to be a nun as women couldn’t be priests. As a girl, Anne played in the streets of New Orleans. Around her, moss-covered k...

    Two years later, in 1961, she married a “passionate atheist”, the poet and artist Stan Rice, “who not only didn’t believe in God, he felt he had had something akin to a vision which had given him a certainty that God didn’t exist”. Her husband got a job at San Francisco State University, where he would go on to chair the creative writing department...

    As an author, Anne Rice has always been fascinated with history. In 1993 she was struck by a mystery that is difficult to explain: the survival of the Jews. This brought her back into contact with God. In 1998, she returned to the Catholic Church but, according to a note at the end of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: “even then I had not closed in on...

    Although it is dangerous to speculate about Jesus’s life, it is with respect and reverence that Anne Rice takes up certain questions that Christians have been asking themselves for centuries: How did Jesus experience being both God and man? What kind of self-awareness did he have? Did he keep any part of his omniscience? Did he perform any miracles...

    I don’t know if this is “a conversion story on the level of Augustine”, as the columnist David Kuo, adviser to President Bush and Deputy Director of the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, described it. But he may have been right when he said: “Anne Rice was a daughter of darkness. Rice sold [millions of] books that explo...

  3. Dec 24, 2010 · Bestselling Author Anne Rice: Noted for the painstaking research behind her historical fiction, an atheist of 36 years makes a surprising discovery when she turns her attention to the mystery of the historical Jesus. Excerpt from Author’s Note in Christ The Lord Out Of Egypt. ©2006 Anne O’Brien Rice. Used by permission.

  4. Dec 13, 2021 · As a young evangelical growing up in the Bible Belt, her writing was *especially* forbidden, and I recall the rushes and flushes I felt as a kid when sneaking some of her fiction in grocery store aisles while my mom was shopping, a world of history, mysticism and sexuality opening up to me.

    • Tripp Fuller
  5. Dec 1, 2005 · Rice had long conversations with Troxler, who had once studied to be a nun. They read passages from the Bible to each other, as did Anne and her sister Karen. Rice's questions intensified.

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  7. Aug 2, 2010 · On July 28, bestselling author Anne Rice officially left the Roman Catholic Church. The writer has had a fairly tumultuous religious history. Although she was raised Catholic, Rice rejected the...

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