"'Behind all the velvet drapes and gossamer winding sheets, this is an old-fashioned family saga... Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight' - The Washington Post Book World"

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter in an Irish Catholic family. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, became a cult best-seller, as did her two subsequent books in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. She also writes erotica under two pseudonyms. Anne Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son.