​​Speaking of The Dead And The Undead: Anne Rice’s Double-Edged Impact

I’ve been talking with friends about why some authors are seen as passable after death despite being terrible people in life. My theory is we can’t break the pedestal on someone who had died well before the age of social media. The Internet revealed who people really were.

Anne Rice died on Saturday, December 11, 2021. She was the latest in a series of author deaths, including beloved children’s writers Beverly Cleary and Gary Paulsen. I’m not sad. Some of my friends are. In this case, Anne used the Internet to…