The crossword solutions for the term RICE OR SEXTON are ANNE. ANNE Rice is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, which revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt. ANNE Sexton was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.