WRITER

Anne Rice

1941 - 2021

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Rice has received more than 4,543,368 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Anne Rice is the 1,144th most popular writer (down from 603rd in 2019), the 1,349th most popular biography from United States (down from 646th in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Taltos
1994
Witching Hour
1990
Vampire Lestat
Fiction / Horror, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Occult & Supernatural
<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles<br> <br></b>The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story--passionate, complex, and thrilling.<br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>The Vampire Lestat</i></b><br> <br> "Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away."<i><b>--</b>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br> <br> "Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires."<i><b>--</b>The Village Voice</i><br> <i> </i><br> "Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive."<i>--The New York Times Book Review</i><br> <i> </i><br> "Luxuriantly created and richly told."<i>--The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>
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Page views of Anne Rices by language

Over the past year Anne Rice has had the most page views in the with 614,128 views, followed by Spanish (59,435), and Russian (32,431). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (119.78%), Volapük (94.74%), and Kirghiz (82.38%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Rice ranks 1,144 out of 7,302. Before her are Arnold Zweig, Bulat Okudzhava, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Monique Wittig, Léon Bloy, and Cornelius Gallus. After her are Antoine François Prévost, Gottfried Keller, Vidyapati, Lao She, Mavro Orbini, and Hugo Gernsback.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Rice ranks 91. Before her are Kyu Sakamoto, Eric Burdon, Aimé Jacquet, Kenji Tochio, Eduardo Duhalde, and Stephen Frears. After her are Martin Evans, Suzanne Mubarak, Alfred G. Gilman, Igor Smirnov, Toyo Ito, and Jacqueline Boyer. Among people deceased in 2021, Anne Rice ranks 63. Before her are Toshihide Maskawa, E. O. Wilson, Abimael Guzmán, Michel Fourniret, Larry King, and Richard Donner. After her are Jehan Sadat, Edita Gruberová, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 1,349 out of 20,380. Before her are Ben Gazzara (1930), Kris Kristofferson (1936), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Anthony Mann (1906), Robin Wright (1966), and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934). After her are Alan J. Heeger (1936), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Linda Lee Cadwell (1945), Frank Borman (1928), Mark Spitz (1950), and John Mott (1865).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Rice ranks 128. Before her are Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Michael Connelly (1956), Norman Mailer (1923), John Grisham (1955), John Updike (1932), and Fredric Brown (1906). After her are E. Howard Hunt (1918), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Solomon Northup (1808), Dan Simmons (1948), Ida Tarbell (1857), and Martha Gellhorn (1908).

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