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Anne Rice

1941 - Today

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles, which revolve around the central character Lestat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Rice has received more than 2,240,211 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Anne Rice is the 814th most popular writer (down from 733rd in 2019), the 868th most popular biography from United States (down from 764th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Writer.

Anne Rice is most famous for her novels, The Vampire Chronicles, which she published from 1976 to 2003.

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  • 71.47

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Rice ranks 814 out of 5,794. Before her are Heinrich Kramer, Tao Yuanming, Frank Wedekind, John Fowles, Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, and Madame de La Fayette. After her are Milorad Pavić, Peter Weiss, Arrigo Boito, Ann Radcliffe, Jacinto Benavente, and Chevalier d'Éon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Rice ranks 46. Before her are Paul Anka, Pete Best, Mahmoud Darwish, Ivan Gašparovič, Jordi Savall, and Jürgen Prochnow. After her are Ivica Osim, Dan Shechtman, Ray Tomlinson, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Chick Corea, and Viktor Zubkov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 868 out of 15,968. Before her are Tim Robbins (1958), Guy Williams (1924), Butch Cassidy (1866), David Fincher (1962), Linda Hamilton (1956), and Michael Mann (1943). After her are Ferid Murad (1936), Willard Libby (1908), John Sherman (1823), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Jim Lovell (1928), and Angela Davis (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 93. Before her are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Michael Crichton (1942), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), James Brendan Connolly (1868), L. Frank Baum (1856), and Sinclair Lewis (1885). After her are Daniel Keyes (1927), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Solomon Northup (1808), James Jones (1921), and John Updike (1932).

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