premise: Anne Rice lived in Texas in the early 80's.
hypothesis: Anne Rice ( born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien ; October 4 , 1941 ) is an American author of gothic fiction , Christian literature , and erotica . Born in New Orleans , Rice spent much of her early life there before moving to Texas , and later to San Francisco . She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976 , while living in California , and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s . She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years , from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60 .