Anne Rice and Stephen King

Anne Rice was born on October 4th 1941 in New
Orleans as Howard Allen O'Brian. (Yes, Howard.
Her mother thought that naming her new daugter
Howard would be interesting. It is!) In 1957, Anne
and her family moved from New Orleans to
Richardson, TX, where in high school Anne met her
future husband Stan Rice. She graduated in 1959,
married Stan in 1961, and then in 1962 they moved
to San Francisco. Their child Michele was born in
1966, but died just before her sixth birthday of
leukemia.

In 1973 Interview With the Vampire is written. It
takes only 5 weeks to invent the doomed child
vampire Claudia, brooding Louie, and the brat
prince Lestat. The second book in 'The Vampire
Chronicles' doesn't appear until 1985 when The
Vampire Lestat is published. When the movie
Interview with the Vampire was released in 1994,
starring Brad Pitt as Louie, Tom Cruise as Lestat,
and Kirstin Dunst as Claudia, a new cult following
erupted, and the world fell in love with these
romantic vampires. Anne Rice became as
synonymous with vampires as Bram Stoker.

No other modern author (with the exception of
Kenneth Starr) has been able to frighten us quite as
much as Stephen King has. He has made even the
most innocent of objects and places seem terrifying.
He is the Master of horror, hands down. That said...

Stephen King was born in Portland Maine in 1947.
He was raised by his mother, but spent parts of his
childhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana where his father's
family lived. His mother, older brother and he moved
around a coupe of times until they finally settled in
Durham, Maine.

During his sophomore year of college, King wrote a
weekly column for the school paper, "The Maine
Campus." He was also very active in student
politics, and served as a member of the student
senate. He also supported the anti-war movement,
and thought that the war in Vietnam was
unconstitutional. He graduated from the University
of Maine at Orono in 1970 with a B.S. in English.

Stephen and Tabitha Spruce married in Jaunuary
1971. They had three children; Naomi Rachel, Joe
Hill, and Owen Phillip.

His first short story was published in a mass market
men's magazine shortly after graduation. In 1973
Doubleday & Co. accepted Carrie for publication.
After that came Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand
and The Dead Zone. After which brought Stephen
King into the world's attention, and paved the way
for other books like, Cujo, It, The Girl Who Loved
Tom Gorden, The Green Mile and Bag of Bones.

Several of Stephen's works have been made into
movies, such as; Carrie, The Dead Zone, The
Shining, Christine, Salem's Lot, Firestarter, Cujo, Pet
Sematary, Misery, Sleepwalkers, Stand By Me, The
Green Mile, Apt Pupil, Hearts in Atlantis and now
Dreamcatcher.

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