Anne Rice
Before vampires glittered or brooded on screen, they whispered secrets in Anne Rice’s richly imagined worlds—sensual, gothic, and unafraid to bleed into the philosophical. Best known for Interview with the Vampire, she didn’t just redefine the vampire novel—she gave it a soul. Rice’s immortals weren’t monsters hiding in the shadows; they were conflicted, emotional, endlessly introspective beings asking what it meant to live forever in a world constantly changing. Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice was raised in a city where history lingers like fog, and where ghosts—real or imagined—seem to breathe through the ironwork and old stone. That…