Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition.
Johnny Cash died September 12, 2003 from complications of diabetes. Just about 4 months after the death of his wife, June Carter Cash. He died at the age of 71. Johnny Cash died from respiratory failure due to complications from diabetes.
Cash was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of seven children born to Ray Cash (May 13, 1897, Kingsland, Arkansas â December 23, 1985, Hendersonville, Tennessee) and Carrie Cloveree (nee NÃ©e; Rivers march, 13, 1904, Rison â Arkansas march, 11, 1991, Hendersonville). tennesseeash wrote three of the songs himself and one with the help of Johnny Horton, but the majority of the protest songs were written by folk artist Peter LaFarge (son of activist and Pulitzer prizewinner Oliver La Farge), whom Cash met in New York in the 1960s and whom he admired for his activism.