Beauty's Release

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, Violin, Angel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.