Christopher
Rice was born in 1978 in Berkeley, California, to mother Anne,
who had just published her first novel 'Interview With The
Vampire' four years earlier, and father Stan, an award winning
poet and director of the creative writing department at San
Francisco State University.
Until the age of ten, Christopher was raised in the heart of San Francisco's
Castro District where the sight of two men walking hand and hand was a common
sight, as well as a sign of things to come.
In 1988, his parents informed him that they would be moving to New Orleans, but
they assured him that the change of scenery would only be temporary, half a year
at the most. The change of scenery lasted until Chris' graduation from high school
and inspired the raw material of his first novel "A Density of Souls".
After brief, unsuccessful stints at both Brown University and the Dramatic Writing
Program at NYU'S Tisch School of the Arts, Christopher made the highly practical
decision to leave higher education and relocate to Los Angeles where he spent
the next year and a half working on screenplays he can't bring himself to read
today.
In December of 1998, he received a phone call from New Orleans informing him
that his mother had slipped into a diabetic coma. Christopher dropped everything
and returned to New Orleans to be at her bedside during her recovery. Separated
from the files he had been working on in Los Angeles and frustrated with the
constraints of formulaic screen writing, he decided to write a short story about
four children growing up and growing apart in New Orleans' Garden District. The
end result was the New York Times Bestseller "A Density of Souls" which
New York Magazine described as "Less Than Zero meets Donna Tartt spiced
with Stephen King", and which the Lambda Literary Awards recently honored
with a nomination for Best Gay Men's Mystery.
Christopher's second novel "The Snow Garden", is a tale of infidelity,
murder and betrayal set on a New England college campus.
Currently lives in Los Angeles, he has a contract for a 3rd novel. |
