Michele was diagnosed with acute granulocytic leukemia in 1970 and passed away from the disease at Stanford Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto on August 5, 1972. from San Francisco State University in 1972. in Political Science from San Francisco State University in 1964 and had her daughter Michele on September 21, 1966. Shortly after, he sent her a letter asking Rice to marry him. Shortly after moving to the Haight-Ashbury district, Rice began taking night classes at the University of San Francisco and began seeing Stan Rice. Rice decided to move to San Francisco with a friend and found work as an insurance claims processor. She graduated in 1959 and attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton but transferred to North State Texas College and ended up dropping out of her sophomore year due to issues with money and finding employment. They moved the next year to north Texas where Rice would first meet her future husband in a high school journalism they were both enrolled in at Richardson High School. Joseph’s by her father in an action Rice considered a betrayal due to it being a “medieval, awful” place.ĭorothy’s father remarried again in 1957 to Dorothy Van Bever.

Her mother passed away in 1956 from complications from alcoholism and Anne and her three sisters were sent to St. Alphonsus she changed her name to Anne because she thought it was pretty when asked by a nun. They lived with her maternal grandmother for some time and remained in the house for a few years after she passed away.Īnne’s birth name was Howard, but while attending the Catholic school St.

Anne grew up in New Orleans, where she dealt with the adversity of being poor as well as the alcoholism of her mother. Her father was a veteran of World War II and had a book published posthumously, The Impulsive Imp. Anne Rice was born the second of four daughters to her Irish Catholic parents, mother Katherine Allen O’Brien and father Howard O’Brien. She married painter and poet Stan Rice in 1961 and had two children with him. She spent much of her early life growing up in New Orleans before moving to Texas and later San Francisco. Anne Rice was born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien on October 4, 1941.Īnne sadly passed on December 11th, 2021. Her books have sold over 100 million copies world wide. She was most well known for her series of novels about vampires entitled “The Vampire Chronicles” which feature famous character Lestat. Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic and Christian fiction.

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