Anne Rice: Birth of the Vampire

Profile of gothic novelist Anne Rice.

10.0

|1994|60 min

A study of the author intersperses readings from "Interview with the Vampire" with her comments on growing up in New Orleans; her mother ("the finest storyteller I have ever known"); living in San Francisco during the 1960s; and the death of her daughter. Included: talks with her husband and sisters.

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