Stan Rice

[citation needed] Rice retired after 22 years as Chairman of the Creative Writing program as well as Assistant Director of the Poetry Center in 1989.

[4] It was the death of his and Anne's first child, daughter Michele (1966–1972), at age six of leukemia, which led to Stan Rice becoming a published author.

[citation needed] In Prism of the Night,[5] Anne Rice said of Stan: "He's a model to me of a man who doesn't look to heaven or hell to justify his feelings about life itself.

Poet Deborah Garrison was Rice's editor at Alfred A. Knopf for his 2002 collection, Red to the Rind, which was dedicated to novelist son Christopher, in whose success as a writer his father greatly rejoiced.

[note 1] Stan Rice died of brain cancer at age 60, on December 9, 2002,[8] in New Orleans where he lived and was survived by Anne and Christopher, as well as his mother, Margaret (1921-2018); a brother, Larry; and two sisters, Nancy and Thia.