Christopher Rice

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**Christopher Rice**

Born:	March 11, 1978 (age 29) Houston, Texas, United States
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	American
Genres:	Fiction / Thriller
Website:	www.christopherricebooks.com

Christopher Travis Rice (born March 11, 1978 in Houston, Texas) is an American author. Rice has written three best-selling novels: A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, and Light Before Day. His next book, Blind Fall, will be published in 2008 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

1 Biography
2 His sexuality and its role in his work
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Biography

Christoper Rice comes from a family of authors. His parents are Anne Rice and the late poet Stan Rice; his aunt, Alice Borchardt, is a noted writer. He is also friends with fellow author Clive Barker. Rice fielded criticism that these connections, rather than his talent, resulted in the publication of his works. Unlike his famous mother, he does not write horror novels, but considers his books to be thrillers.

Rice is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and is a 1996 graduate of the Isidore Newman School. Rice was in the same graduating class as American Idol finalist Judd Harris and noted poker expert Ed Miller. 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.

Rice lives in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

[edit] His sexuality and its role in his work

Rice is gay; ^[2] 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. ^[3]

Nonetheless, Rice is proud of his large following in the gay community, 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." ^[4]

Rice also writes a regular feature for the LGBT-related biweekly news magazine The Advocate called "Coastal Disturbances," in which he discusses various topics.^[5]