Anne Rice (D.T.) Anne Rice, birth name: Howard Allen O'Brien Howard Allen O'Brien (October 4, 1941 December 11, 2021) was an American writer, writer, and producer. The most famous writer brought the novel “Interview with the Vampire”, which owes its popularity to the film of the same name. Anna Rice was born to Howard and Catherine O'Brien. At the birth of Anna, the second of four daughters (three sisters of Anna - Alice, later the famous writer Alice Borchard, Tammara and Karen) named Howard Allen O'Brien - in honor of his father. “I was named Howard Allen because my mother thought it was a good thing. My father’s name was Howard, and she thought it would be very interesting to call me by the same name. She was a bohemian, a little crazy, a genius, and had a great gift to teach .. And it occurred to her that to give a woman the name Howard means to give her a kind of advantage in life.