American literature of the second half of 20 century

Later Life

• Returned to teaching in 1966
• Taught at Wayne State University
• Taught at Ohio University
• Has published nine novels since Flowers for Algernon
• Won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Kurd Lasswitz Award, Locus Award

Gothic literature: Anne Rice

• American writer Anne Rice gained recognition for her books about aspects of the supernatural. Her best-known novels, involving a vampire named Lestat, form a series called the Vampire Chronicles.
• In Rice's first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976; motion picture, 1994), a vampire tells his life story to a boy, thereby introducing the reader to vampire history and culture.
• The book begins a saga of vampires that continues in several other books, which together constitute the Vampire Chronicles, a series noted for its sympathetic portrayal of vampires as romantic individuals who live outside mainstream society. The other Vampire Chronicles books include The Vampire Lestat (1985), The Queen of the Damned (1988), The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), Memnoch the Devil (1995), and The Vampire Armand (1998).