Anne Rice, the author of the popular Interview With the Vampire series, has passed away from complications due to a stroke. She was 80 years old. Her son, Christopher Rice, announced the news on Anne Rice’s Facebook page, which she had an active presence on. “Earlier tonight, Anne passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke,” Christopher Rice wrote. “She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died. The immensity of our family’s grief cannot be overstated. As my mother, her support for me was unconditional — she taught me to embrace my dreams, reject conformity and challenge the dark voices of fear and self-doubt. As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions. In her final hours, I sat beside her hospital bed in awe of her accomplishments and her courage, awash in memories of a life that took us from the fog laced hills of the San Francisco Bay Area to the magical streets of New Orleans to the twinkling vistas of Southern California.”
