Christopher Rice

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Christopher and Anne Rice in 2005

Christopher Travis Rice (born March 11, 1978 in Berkeley , California ) is an American writer and activist for gay rights in the United States .

Life

Christopher Rice comes from a family of artists. He is the son of the writer Anne Rice-O'Brien , an international best-selling author ( Chronicle of the Vampires ), and the painter and poet Stan Rice ; his aunt Alice Borchardt wrote historical fantasy novels.

Rice grew up in New Orleans . He attended Brown University and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. However, he did not graduate, but went to California to learn screenwriting in practice.

Rice now lives in Los Angeles with his partner, photographer Brian Orter . In addition to his freelance work as a novelist, he writes bi-weekly columns for the gay and lesbian lifestyle magazine The Advocate .

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Rice calls his works a thriller and calls it "coincidental" that homosexual characters can be found in all of his works; However, he does not consciously write gay literature and does not see himself as a "gay author".

Since his mother actively promoted the publication of the first novel A Density of Souls (Ger. Grausame Spiele ), Christopher Rice first had to deal with the criticism that he had found a publisher solely through his mother's influence. However, his first book made it into the American bestseller lists and, in addition to critical comments on the not quite fully developed style, also received a lot of critical praise for the topic of the coming-out of a college student and the associated harassment by the peer group.

Rice's second novel The Snow Garden (dt. The snow garden ) also plays in the student milieu; it's about the murder of a lecturer's wife. In 2003 he was awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Men's Mystery category. The third book, Light Before Day , takes up the subject of child pornography. The fourth novel, Blind Fall, is a detective novel in which a marine who has returned from Iraq tries to solve the murder of his captain.

Works

  • A Density of Souls , 2000, German cruel games . Ullstein, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-25660-0 .
  • The Snow Garden , 2002, dt. The snow garden . Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-25782-8 .
  • Light Before Day , 2004
  • Blind Fall , 2008
  • The Moonlit Earth , 2010
  • The Heavens Rise , 2013
  • The Vines , 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Rice, Christopher (b. 1978)” ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , glbtq.com (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glbtq.com
  2. ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. July 10, 2003, accessed March 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Christopher Travis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley (California) , California