Anne Rice

Anne Rice Instagram – This is @christopher.rice.writer. Michele Rice, Anne’s daughter, would have turned 56 today had she not been taken from us so cruelly at such a young age by an aggressive form of leukemia that at the time was almost impossible to treat in young children. Michele’s life and death were no doubt the inspiration for the child vampire Claudia in the novel “Interview With The Vampire”, a fact that my mother came to accept later in life. I was born several years after her death. Around the age of six I accidentally learned of her existence for the first time. A teacher who assumed I’d been told about her made a sympathetic reference to her death in front of our classroom. In the years that followed that stunning instant, my parents generously shared their memories of Michele in those moments when I was filled with questions about her that burned with a child’s curiosity. Michele laughed and joked even when sick. Her child’s mouth struggled the word “take” and she’d often asked my parents if they’d “caked a shower”, which filled their heads with comic images. Her nickname was Mouse. Happy Birthday, Mouse. | Posted on 21/Sep/2022 18:43:08