Anne Rice, Author of Gothic Novels, Dies at 80
Anne Rice in her garden, Berkeley, California, May, 1976.
Photographer: Janet Fries/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
New York (AP) -- Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.
Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.