Stan Rice

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Stan Rice (November 7, 1942 – December 9, 2002) was an American poet and artist and husband of writer Anne Rice (married 1961). He was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and retired as Chairman of the Creative Writing Department in 1989. Stan Rice died from brain cancer and was survived by his wife and son, author Christopher Rice.

It was the death of the couple's first child, daughter Michele (1966-1972), at age six of leukemia, which sparked Stan Rice's becoming a published author. His first book of poems, based on her illness and death, was titled Some Lamb, and was published in 1975. He encouraged his wife to quit her work as a waitress, cook and theater usher in order to devote herself full time to her writing.

Both encouraged their son, Christopher, to write as well.

He is entombed in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.

[edit] Poetry collections

False Prophet (2003) (Posthumous)
Red to the Rind (2002)
The Radiance of Pigs (1999)
Fear Itself (1997)
Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems (1992)
Body of Work (1983)
Whiteboy (1976) (earned the Edgar Allan Poe award from the Academy of American Poets)
Some Lamb (1975)