Editing Christopher Rice (section)

==Early life and education==
Christopher Rice was born on March 11, 1978. His parents were novelist [[Anne Rice]] and poet [[Stan Rice]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/haunted/index.ssf/2014/10/christopher_rice_left_anne_ric.html|title=Christopher Rice leaves Anne Rice off list of '5 Scariest Reads for Halloween'|publisher=}}</ref> his aunt, [[Alice Borchardt]], was a noted writer of fantasy and historical fiction. Rice had an older sister, Michele, who died from leukemia in 1972 when she was five years old. 

Rice was born in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and spent the first ten years of his childhood in the [[Castro District]]. Rice described the culture shock that resulted from his family's move to New Orleans when he was ten years old: "I went from a school in San Francisco where we called our lesbian teachers by their first names to this uptown, private elementary school where we all had to go to chapel in the morning."<ref name="glbtqarchive">{{cite web |last1=Kaczorowski |first1=Craig |title=Rice, Christopher (b. 1978) |url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/literature/rice_christopher_L.pdf |website=GLBTQ Archive |access-date=November 1, 2020}}</ref>

Rice is a 1996 graduate of the [[Isidore Newman School]], which he attended during the same time period as future NFL stars [[Peyton Manning]] and [[Eli Manning]]. He has stated that while he was never physically threatened during high school, his knowledge of his own sexuality and his failure to play athletics made him feel like an outcast. Of this time in his life, Rice said, "I had money, had a nice car, was white. I could have fit in, but I knew I didn't belong. I knew I didn't share their dreams and ambitions and their values". These experiences inspired his first novel, ''A Density of Souls''. 

Rice began visiting gay bars and clubs during his senior year of high school, but he did not come out to his parents until he met his first boyfriend. His father accepted Rice's sexuality, but his mother initially believed he was bisexual based on his past relationships.

Rice went on to attend [[Brown University]], an experience which inspired his second novel, ''The Snow Garden''. During his freshman year, he intended to become an actor. He transferred to [[Tisch School of the Arts]] where he studied Dramatic Writing. He did not graduate from either school; he instead moved to Los Angeles to explore writing screenplays.<ref name="glbtqarchive"/>