NEWS Poet, Painter Stan Rice Dies of Cancer
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Poet, Painter Stan Rice Dies of Cancer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Poet and painter Stan Rice, the husband of novelist Anne
Rice, has died at age 60.
He died Monday of brain cancer.
Born in Dallas, Rice met his future wife in a high school journalism class.
They married in 1961 and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where
he went on to become assistant director of the Poetry Center and later
headed the creative writing department.
In 1988, the couple moved to New Orleans, where Rice eventually opened the
Stan Rice Gallery.
In ``Prism of the Night,'' a 1992 biography of Anne Rice, she said of her
husband: ``He's a model to me of a man who doesn't look to heaven or hell to
justify his feelings about life itself. His capacity for action is
admirable. Very early on he said to me, 'What more could you ask for than
life itself?'''
Victoria Wilson of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, who edits Anne
Rice's novels and worked with Rice on his 1997 book, ``Paintings,'' said
Rice refused to sell his artworks.
``The great thing about Stan is that he refused to play the game as a
painter, and he refused to play the game as a poet,'' Wilson said.
Rice's seven poetry collections attracted numerous honors, including the
Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry
Jackson Award and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In addition to his wife, survivors include his son, Christopher, as well as
his mother, a brother and two sisters.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Poet and painter Stan Rice, the husband of novelist Anne
Rice, has died at age 60.
He died Monday of brain cancer.
Born in Dallas, Rice met his future wife in a high school journalism class.
They married in 1961 and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where
he went on to become assistant director of the Poetry Center and later
headed the creative writing department.
In 1988, the couple moved to New Orleans, where Rice eventually opened the
Stan Rice Gallery.
In ``Prism of the Night,'' a 1992 biography of Anne Rice, she said of her
husband: ``He's a model to me of a man who doesn't look to heaven or hell to
justify his feelings about life itself. His capacity for action is
admirable. Very early on he said to me, 'What more could you ask for than
life itself?'''
Victoria Wilson of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, who edits Anne
Rice's novels and worked with Rice on his 1997 book, ``Paintings,'' said
Rice refused to sell his artworks.
``The great thing about Stan is that he refused to play the game as a
painter, and he refused to play the game as a poet,'' Wilson said.
Rice's seven poetry collections attracted numerous honors, including the
Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry
Jackson Award and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In addition to his wife, survivors include his son, Christopher, as well as
his mother, a brother and two sisters.