What Inspires Anne Rice

What Inspires Anne Rice

Anne Rice is an amazing and well-known author, famous for her novels and short stories. With millions of dedicated fans across the world, many would like to know what inspired so many of Anne Rice's literature.

Anne Rice was born on October 4, 1941. Her original birth name was actually Howard Allen O'Brien. When asked about her unusual name, Rice is quoted on saying this:

"My birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad woman, a bit of a genius, and a great deal of a great teacher. And she had the idea that naming a woman Howard was going to give that woman an unusual advantage in the world."

From this quote, you can see what Rice's childhood must have been like. To have such a great and unusual mother most have had a great affect on how Anne was brought up and how she gathers so many ideas from her imagination.

As a child she went to see the movie Dracula's Daughter. It is said the movie strongly influenced her in her vampire writtings. Rice says its still her favorite scary movie to this day.

Anne Rice was born and spent most of her time and childhood in New Orleans. Another part of Anne's life where she gathers inspiration since New Orleans is the setting in many of her stories.

In 1958 her family moved to north Texas when she was just 17 because her father had re-married. They lived in Richardson and Rice went to the High School there. This is where she met Stan Rice, her future husband and who would inspire many things.

Anne then attended college at Texas Woman's University in Denton only to move with Stan to California. She then attended San Francisco State University. About her time there, she is quoted saying:

"I'm a totally conservative person. In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960's, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square."

Anne's sense of herself would especially inspire and lead to some of her most famous writings. Rice and her husband eventually had a daughter named Michele, who was born on September 21, 1966. She would later die of leukemia on August 5, 1972. In her most famous Vampire Chronicles series, the well-known character Claudia is said to have been inspired from Michele herself. Rice was able to immortalize her daughter in her writtings. When Claudia died in the novel it was