Anne Rice is really Howard Allen O'Brien!?!
lva...@hamp.hampshire.edu
"in my latest flier from QPBC, there is a book listed, entitled
Arts & Entertainment's trickiest questions by Paul Kuttner.
in the advert it says:
Question: The birth of this popular American author, born in 1941, was
Howard Allen O'Brien. By what name is the writer best knokwn today?
Answer: Anne Rice.
that should propably be birth name, i suspect. anyways, what's all this mean?
we all know quite certain that Anne's no Howard! who is this Howard Anne
fellow?
Love, Lake
melanie lotocky
>jldo...@carson.u.washington.edu wrote:
>Answer: Anne Rice.
yep, that's her birth name. Her dad's name is Howard and he thought it
was a feminine sounding name when he was growing up so he gave her that
name. She changed it to Anne herself when she started school I believe
(all of this is from the book _Prism of the Night_ which is a biography
of Anne Rice).
Melanie.
Scott Rossa
Her name REALLY is Howard Allen FRANCES O'Brien. An incorporation
of her father's first name and her mother's maiden name.
When she started first grade, she decided that she would be called
Anne. Her Husband is Stan Rice. And so, this is how we get
Anne Rice.
jane
her full name is actually howard allen frances alphonsus liguori o'brien
rice
*howard is her father's name--he thought it was very feminine sounding
*allen is her mother's maiden name
*alphonsus liguori is the name of a saint and the name of an aunt that she
took
at confirmation
*o'brien is her maiden name
*rice is her husband's last name.
whew,
jane
*je suis une grande canarde*
Ash
grandfather, as I recall (it was mentioned in her biography). Her
father seems to have been a very odd character, so I suppose it's not
surprising that he saddled his daughter with a man's name.
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System Ninja
> Question: The birth of this popular American author, born in 1941, was
> Howard Allen O'Brien. By what name is the writer best knokwn today?
>
> Answer: Anne Rice.
>
> that should propably be birth name, i suspect. anyways, what's all this mean
> we all know quite certain that Anne's no Howard! who is this Howard Anne
> fellow?
>
No kidding, now -- Anne's real name is Howard. This was her given
birthname. See the book *The Prism of the Night*(?), a biography
of Rice, for details. Catherine Ramsland, I think, is the author,
though I could be mispelling the name.
Anne's family was very strange, but I think we've all heard of people
with names that seem to indicate the opposite gender.
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