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.
US country music star Johnny Cash was well-known for his activism on prisoners' rights - but what impact did he actually have on the prison system? On 26 July 1972, three grizzled-looking men dressed uneasily in suits gave evidence at a US Senate subcommittee on prison reform. Two of the men were former inmates of some of the toughest prisons in the US - the third was the country and western singer, Johnny Cash.