I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control." She explained her shifting belief: "I refuse to be anti-gay. That's my mission."įour years later, she announced that she was no longer Christian. I'm going to use every skill that I ever used to make you believe in vampires and witches – so that you call me at home and night and ask me if they're really real – I'm going to use that same skill to make you believe that Jesus is the son of God. She explained to "Sunday Morning" that her goal with the book was "to make you believe. Her 2005 novel, "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," told the story of Jesus as a child. Īfter nearly four decades as an avowed atheist writing about vampires, Rice returned to the Catholic Church, and began writing about Jesus. To date, her books have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. The book spurred a long list of novels in what came to be known as "The Vampire Chronicles." There were also books on witches, werewolves and seraphims, as well as erotic novels published under pseudonyms, and they were translated to movies and the stage. What would it be like if you could get a vampire to tell you what his experiences were, like an interview with the vampire?'" I was just sitting at the typewriter, and I thought, 'Well, let me give this a try. "It was just something I tried one night. I felt like a lost person, a person in the dark, a person who was trying to find meaning in life, trying to find context. "The vampire was the perfect metaphor for the way I felt. The subject matter of her debut novel, "Interview With the Vampire," from 1973, came while mourning the death of her six-year-old daughter, Michelle, from leukemia. I think the two were very intimately connected for me." She left Catholicism as a youngster when she could not reconcile the forbidding of books: "I stopped believing in my church, and then I stopped believing in God. She asked me to say the Rosary with her." In 2006 Rice told "Sunday Morning" that, back in the 1950s, alcoholism was considered a disease: "The one time she talked to me about it, she described it that way, as a craving in the blood. (She would choose the name Anne for herself as a child.) Her mother died from complications of alcoholism when Anne was a teenager. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.Īuthor Anne Rice (October 4, 1941-December 11, 2021) was born into a strict Catholic family, and was given her father's name: Howard Allen O'Brien. | Philip Gould/Corbis via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan.
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