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Dec 13, 2021 · Katherine R. (Kay) O'Brien formerly Allen. Born 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Daughter of Richard Allen and Alice Agnes (Connell) Allen. [sibling (s) unknown] Wife of Howard James O'Brien — married 24 Nov 1938 in Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Descendants.
- Female
- July 23, 1956
- Howard James O'brien
Born in New Orleans on October 4, 1941, Howard Allen Frances O'Brien [8] was the second of four daughters of parents of Irish Catholic descent, Howard O'Brien (1917–1991) and Katherine "Kay" Allen O'Brien (1908–1956). [9][10] Her father, a naval veteran of World War II and lifelong resident of New Orleans, worked as a personnel executive ...
O'BRIEN – On Monday morning, July 23, 1956, at 8:15 o'clock, KATHERINE R. ALLEN, wife of Howard J. O'Brien; mother of Alice A., Howard A., Tamara A., and Karen A. O'Brien; sister of John (Mickey) Allen and Mrs. George Davian of Los Angeles, Calif.
Dec 12, 2021 · Believing that a good mother raised an intellectually superior child, Katherine O’Brien encouraged her children’s creativity while holding them accountable to their Catholic faith. This tension between permissiveness and restraint is key to Rice’s gothic and erotic novels.
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Rice was named Howard Allen after her postal worker father, Howard O'Brien, and mother, Katherine Allen O'Brien. As a child she disliked her first name so much that she changed it to Anne in grade school. The second of four sisters, Rice grew up in the blue-collar "Irish Channel" neighborhood of New Orleans. The Irish Channel borders the affluent G...
Rice's fiction revolves around the experiences of outsiders and misfits in society, questions of atheism and agnosticism, and themes of power and submission. Often including supernatural characters and plotting, Rice's work is noted for its darkness, eroticism, and evocation of setting and historical detail. In Interview with the Vampire, a vampire...
Most critics recognize Rice's remarkable talent for constructing page-turning plots, evoking a sense of place—particularly when writing about her native New Orleans—and creating whole new universes peopled by supernatural characters. She is widely praised for rejuvenating the hackneyed genre of vampire fiction with her intelligent, ambitious novels...
Dec 13, 2021 · Katherine Ramsland, who penned a biography about Rice, said that Rice's father Howard O'Brien was a "son of the Irish Channel", while her mother Katherine Allen O'Brien came from "an old and...
Oct 4, 2023 · Originally named Howard Allen O’Brien after her Irish parents, Katherine Allen O’Brien and Howard O’Brien, she tried out a variety of female names before settling on Anne. Believing that a good mother raised an intellectually superior child, Katherine O’Brien encouraged her children’s creativity while holding them accountable to their ...
