Christopher Rice
| Christopher Rice | |
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| Born | Christopher Travis Rice March 11, 1978 Berkeley, California, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Suspense, Crime, Supernatural thriller, Erotic romance, Historical |
| Relatives |
Anne Rice (mother) Stan Rice (father) |
| Website | |
| christopherricebooks |
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Christopher Travis Rice (born March 11, 1978) is an American author. Rice has penned multiple bestselling novels, including: A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, Light Before Day, Blind Fall, The Moonlit Earth, The Heavens Rise, and The Vines. His work has been described as spanning multiple genres, including suspense, crime, supernatural thriller, and erotic romance. With his mother Anne Rice he is also the co-author of the forthcoming historical horror novel Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra.
Christopher Rice comes from a family of authors. His parents are renowned horror novelist Anne Rice and the late poet Stan Rice;his aunt, Alice Borchardt, was a noted writer. Rice had an older sister named Michele, whom he never met as she died at the age of five years old, six years before he was born.
Rice has lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and is a 1996 graduate of the prestigious Isidore Newman School. Rice went on to attend Brown University and the Tisch School of the Arts. He did not graduate from either school; instead, he moved to Los Angeles to explore writing screenplays.
As of 2005, Rice lived in Los Angeles, California.
Rice is gay, and his works consist of descriptions of contemporary American life for the gay male. When asked in 2002 about "being pegged a 'gay writer,'" he replied:
That's not what I do. I might be more open to that label if I hadn't introduced ensemble casts of characters. Granted, A Density of Souls is as close to a gay book as you can get. It revolves around a character's homosexuality, and others are described in terms of their reaction to the one character's sexuality. In that sense it's at the core of the book. The Snow Garden is about identity. With this book, I'm trying to shrug off the term "gay" author.
Nonetheless, Rice is proud of the reaction of the gay community to his writing, explaining "it was incredibly rewarding when I got a huge positive response from the character Stephen in The Density of Souls. More than a thousand young gay men contacted me and said that I captured what it was like for them going through those years. That means everything to me."
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