# Born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, LA. Anne Rice chose the first name "Anne" as a child.
# Married to Stan Rice in 1961.
# Daughter Michele born in 1966. Michele passed away of leukemia at the age of 5.
# Anne writes her first published novel, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, in 1973, selling it to Knopf the next year.
# Son Christopher is born in 1978. Christopher will go on to become an accomplished novelist in his own right.
# After living in Texas and San Francisco, Anne settled back in New Orleans, buying the house that would be the setting for the Mayfair Witches series. Anne continues to write one to two books a year. Her novels INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, EXIT TO EDEN, and THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED become feature films. Her novel, THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, becomes a Showtime mini-series.
# After husband Stan Rice passed away from a brain tumor, Anne moves to California, where she currently resides.

There cannot have been this much written about vampires without having become one herself.