Shortly before the stroke that killed her, the author of the Vampire Chronicles and many other books — including the forthcoming “Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris,” written with her son, Christopher — answered questions from the Book Review.
What books are on your night stand?
Currently it’s Peter Ackroyd’s biography of Shakespeare, and “The World Before Us: How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins,” by Tom Higham.
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