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Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin (left) and his husband Christopher Turner at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006
Born May 13, 1944 (1944-05-13) (age 63)
Washington D.C.
Occupation Author
Spouse Christopher Turner

Armistead Jones Maupin Jr.[1] (born May 13, 1944(1944-05-13)) is an American writer best known for his Tales of the City series of novels based in San Francisco. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1736x2228, 2239 KB)Armistead Maupin and his partner at the Sundance Film Festival. ... Same-sex marriage is marriage between individuals who are of the same legal or biological sex. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

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Biography

Maupin was born to a conservative, Christian family in Washington D.C. but moved early on to North Carolina where he was raised.[2] He says he has had storytelling instincts since he was eight years old.[3] He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he got into journalism through writing for The Daily Tar Heel.[4] After earning his undergraduate degree, Maupin enrolled in law school, but later dropped out. He worked at a television station in Raleigh managed by conservative television personality and later U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, who nominated him for a patriotic award, which he won. Maupin says he was a typical conservative and even a segregationist at this time and looked up to Helms, who he knew and was a family friend, as a sort of "hero figure". He later changed his views dramatically - "I've changed and he hasn't" - and condemned Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol.[3][2][4] He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy; he served several tours of duty including one in the Vietnam War. This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... The Daily Tar Heel (commonly referred to as the DTH) is the independent student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... // A law school is an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees. ... Nickname: Motto: You Can See the Whole State from Here Map of Wake County, North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina County Wake County i Founded 1792 Government  - Mayor Charles Meeker (D) Area  - City  134. ... Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ... Patriotism is a feeling of love and devotion to ones own homeland (patria, the land of ones fathers). ... Conservative may refer to: Conservatism, political philosophy A member of a Conservative Party Conservative extension, premise of deductive logic Conservativity theorem, mathematical proof of conservative extension Conservative Judaism britney spears Category: ... Segregation means separation. ... The gay pride or simply pride campaign has three main premises: that people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender identity are inherent and cannot be intentionally altered. ... North Carolina State Capitol The North Carolina State Capitol is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...


Maupin's work on a Charleston newspaper was followed with an offer of a post at the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971.[5][6] He says he knew he was gay since childhood,[3][4] but didn't have sex until he was 26 and only decided to come out publicly in 1974.[7][8][9][2] The same year, he began what would become the Tales of the City series as a serial in a local newspaper, The Pacific Sun, moving to the San Francisco Chronicle after the former newspaper folded.[10] Nickname: Motto: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights) Location of Charleston in South Carolina. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... Gay sex is a part of some males sexual needs, it is very popular in China and Greenland. ... Come Out was composed by Steve Reiche in 1966. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ...


His former partner of twelve years, Terry Anderson, was once a gay rights activist (Maupin himself has done much work in this area),[11][12] and co-authored the screenplay for The Night Listener. They remain friends and work together; Maupin says "we're still each other's family".[3] He lived with Anderson in San Francisco and New Zealand.[13] Ian McKellen is a friend[14] and Christopher Isherwood was a mentor, friend, and influence as a writer.[15][16] Maupin is now married to Christopher Turner, a website producer and photographer who he came across on an internet dating website and then "chased him down Castro Street, saying, "Didn’t I see you on Daddyhunt.com?""[17][18] Armistead and Christopher were married in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 18, 2007, though he says that they had called each other 'husbands' for two years prior.[19] He enjoys doing public readings of his own works and has recorded them all as audiobooks.[3] The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... The Night Listener is a psychological thriller starring Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh, and Rory Culkin. ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Christopher Isherwood (left) and W.H. Auden (right), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of... Castro Street is a street in San Francisco, California. ... Same-sex marriage is marriage between individuals who are of the same legal or biological sex. ... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city located in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Husband may refer to: the male spouse in a marriage a husband pillow. ... An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ...


Works

Tales of the City

Main article: Tales of the City

Tales of the City is a 6-book series, the first portions of which were initially published as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974 in a Marin County newspaper, The Pacific Sun picked up in 1976 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and later reworked into the series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper and Row). The first of Maupin's novels, entitled Tales of the City, was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 80s, ending with the last book, Sure of You, in 1989.[10] In Babycakes, published in 1983, he was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS.[9] Of the autobiographical nature of the characters, he says "I’ve always been all of the characters in one way or another".[19] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Marin County (pronounced mah-RIN) is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ... HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Harper & Row is an imprint of HarperCollins. ... This article is about the novel Tales of the City; see Tales of the City (miniseries) for the TV adaptation and Tales of the City for the entire series of novels Tales of the City (1978) is the first book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco... Sure of You (1989) is the sixth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin. ... Babycakes (1984) is the fourth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ...


The Tales of the City books have been translated into ten languages (French: Les Chroniques de San Francisco; German: Stadtgeschichten) and there are more than six million copies in print.


Television miniseries

Main article: Tales of the City (miniseries)

The first three books in the series have also been converted into three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney, the first airing on the American television network PBS and the latter two on the American cable television channel Showtime.[20] Tales of the City is a 1993 television mini-series based on the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress, active in movies, television, and theatre. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... Showtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States. ...


Musical projects

He collaborated on Anna Madrigal Remembers, a musical work written by Jake Heggie and performed by choir Chanticleer and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade on 6 August 1999, for which Maupin provided a new libretto. He also participated in a musical event entitled Tunes From Tales (Music for Mouse), which included readings from his books and music from the era.[21] Jake Heggie is a American composer and pianist. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Chanticleer is the name of a rooster in the fable Chanticleer and the Fox, one version of which is told in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. ... A mezzo-soprano (meaning medium soprano in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker (or lower) vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that... Frederica von Stade (b. ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ...


Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener

Main articles: The Night Listener (novel) and The Night Listener (film)

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Maybe The Moon is a story Maupin describes as 'partly autobiographical', despite the main character being a female heterosexual Jewish dwarf. The character was also based on his friend Tamara De Treaux, who was the actor for E.T.[22][23] Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Men hur kommer man in i berget, frÃ¥gade tomtepojken (But how do I get into the mountain? the young dwarf asked. ... ET (or et) is Latin for and; it can also refer to: Estonian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, et) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the 1982 film, or the related video game extraterrestrials in general Eastern Time, both in standard time and daylight time Entertainment Tonight engineering technology elapsed time...


The Night Listener is a roman a clef, inspired by Maupin's real-life experiences surrounding the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax.[24][25][26][17] He says that he aimed to create a solid psychological thriller, while being able to put autobiographical elements in it.[3] The issues he addresses include his break-up with his long-term partner and his relationship with his father. The book very lightly references the Tales world via Gabriel Noone's assistant, who is one of DeDe Halcyon-Day's twins from Tales. It was serialised on the internet, on salon.com, prior to its print publication.[3] The Night Listener has been adapted into a movie that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in late January 2006 and released by Miramax the following August.[17] A roman clef or roman (French for novel with a key) is a novel describing real-life events behind a fa ade of fiction. ... Anthony Godby Johnson is the subject and supposed author of the 1993 memoir A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boys Triumphant Story. ... Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. ... For music albums named Autobiography, see Greek eauton = self, bios = life and graphein = write) is a form of biography, the writing of a life story. ... Screenshot of Salon. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ... Miramax is a Big Ten film distribution and production company. ...


Michael Tolliver Lives: a continuation of Tales?

Main article: Michael Tolliver Lives

Maupin has stated on his website that another Tales of the City novel is unlikely.[27] Though he has explicitly stated that Michael Tolliver Lives is "not a continuation of Tales of the City," the novel is written from the first-person perspective of Tales character Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, now in his fifties and living as an HIV-positive man.[28] Michael Tolliver Lives is a 2007 novel by Armistead Maupin. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, I. the narrator is a fool putting his nose into the storytelling exercise. ... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections). ...


It also features appearances by familiar Tales characters, such as Anna Madrigal.[29] Maupin said: "I was interested in pursuing the life of an aging gay man, and Michael was the perfect vehicle ... However, as soon as I started writing, I found that, one by one, all the other characters stepped forward and asked to be present. It felt natural, so I went with it." [9] He calls it "a smaller, more personal novel than I've written in the past." [28] The book was released on June 12, 2007, declared 'Michael Tolliver Day' by the mayor of San Francisco.[30] [31] June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Mayor Gavin Newsom 2004-present The Mayor of San Francisco is the head of the government of San Francisco, California. ...


His next project is another Tales volume: "Whatever I have to offer seems to come through those characters ... And I see no reason to abandon them."[9]


On being a 'gay writer'

“ One of the things that I saw different about what I was doing was that I was allowing a little air into the situation by actually placing gay people in the context of the world at large. Most gay fiction that I was reading when I was coming out in the early 70s made me claustrophobic because it only dealt with the life of the gay bar and everybody in it was gay. Often gay and male and there weren't even any lesbians in the picture. That didn't make me feel the way I wanted to feel about life and it didn't correspond with the life that I was living in San Francisco which was wonderfully mixed up in terms of the people that came and went in my life and that was part of the enormous exhilaration of it. It felt revolutionary. ”
 
— Armistead Maupin[3]
“ I've always been proud of the fact that I've been openly gay longer than just about anybody writing today [...] but I never intended for that declaration to mean that I was narrowing my focus in any way, or joining a niche [...] now publishing has decided there's money in this, or at least a market [...] now a formalised thing has sprung up which I think is extremely detrimental to anybody beginning to write today. [...] It's possible to write a novel now which has gay themes, which has any truth you want to speak, that can be sold to a mainstream publisher and sold in a mainstream bookstore, so the notion of people who've narrowed their focus to only write books for a gay audience for gay people about gay people is stifling to me; in some ways, it's another form of the closet, as far as I'm concerned. I think Jerry Falwell must be very happy with those little cubby-holes at the back of book stores that say 'gay and lesbian' - it's a warning sign, they can keep their kids away from that section. I'd like people to stumble on my works in the literature section of Barnes and Noble and have their lives changed because of it.

It's complicated. I don't want to feel any less queer, but I think for us to march along in a dutiful little herd called 'gay and lesbian literature' and have little seminars that we hold together is pointless at this point, it makes no sense to me at all. [...] I cringe when I get 'gay writer' each time. Why the modifier? I'm a writer. It's like calling Amy Tan a Chinese-American writer every time you mention her name, or Alice Walker a black writer. We're all discussing the human condition. Some of us have revolutionised writing by bringing in subject-matter that nobody's heard about before. But we don't want that to narrow the definition of who we are as an artist. [...] I don't mind being cross-shelved. I'm very proud of being in the gay and lesbian section, but I don't want to be told that I can't sit up in the front of the book store with the straight, white writers. Homosexuality refers to sexual and/or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... LGBT literature or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender literature is an all encompassing term for literature produced by people who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender or which involves characters, plot lines or themes concerning this community. ... Coming out of the closet (often shortened to coming out in winking reference to the public introduction of debutantes) describes the voluntary public announcement of ones (primarily homosexual or bisexual) sexual orientation or gender identity. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... A gay bar is a drinking establishment which can vary in character as much as any other type of bar, but which caters exclusively or primarily to a gay and / or lesbian clientele. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... “Publisher” redirects here. ... Look up Market in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up mainstream in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The expression being in the closet has been used to describe keeping secret ones sexual behavior or orientation, most commonly homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender and transsexual people, paedophiles, and pederasts. ... Jerry Falwell (born August 11, 1933) is a fundamentalist pastor and televangelist from the United States. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... A typical Barnes & Noble bookstore. ... The word queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual, but it is also currently often used in reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual communities. ... A seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction, either at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization. ... Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi; born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African-American author and feminist who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple. ... The human condition encompasses the totality of the experience of being human and living human lives. ... Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake...

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— Armistead Maupin[3]

List of books

Tales of the City

  • Maupin, Armistead (1978). Tales of the City. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060906545. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (1980). More Tales of the City. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060907266. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (1982). Further Tales of the City. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060149914. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (1984). Babycakes. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060152621. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (1987). Significant Others. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060964081. [32]
  • Maupin, Armistead (1989). Sure of You. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060161647. 

This article is about the novel Tales of the City; see Tales of the City (miniseries) for the TV adaptation and Tales of the City for the entire series of novels Tales of the City (1978) is the first book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco... This article is about the novel More Tales of the City; see More Tales of the City (miniseries) for the TV adaptation and Tales of the City for the entire series of novels More Tales of the City (1980) is the second book in the Tales of the City series... This article is about the novel Further Tales of the City; see Further Tales of the City (miniseries) for the TV adaptation and Tales of the City for the entire series of novels Further Tales of the City (1982) is the third book in the Tales of the City series... Babycakes (1984) is the fourth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. ... Significant Others (1987) is the fifth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. ... Sure of You (1989) is the sixth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin. ...

Other novels

  • Maupin, Armistead (1992). Maybe the Moon. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060165529. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (2000). The Night Listener. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 006017143X. 
  • Maupin, Armistead (2007). Michael Tolliver Lives. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060761356. 

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Michael Tolliver Lives is a 2007 novel by Armistead Maupin. ...

Notes and references

  1. ^ Pronounced 'Mawpin' as read in English rather than rhyming with the French 'Gaugin'. 'Armistead Maupin' happens to be an anagram of 'Is a Man I Dreamt Up' (Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up was the title of a 1990 BBC documentary on him), though neither the name nor Maupin himself was invented. He recalls: 'One person even wrote: "I know for a fact that you don't exist. You're really a lesbian collective in Marin County." (Sometimes I feel like a lesbian collective in Marin County, but I'm not.)' See: Oft Asked Questions.
  2. ^ a b c 'Growing up Gay in old Raleigh - in The Independent of Raleigh, North Carolina, June 1988 - autobiographical memoir
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Armistead Maupin. Interview with Bill Goldstein. New York Times. 24 Oct 2000. (Transcript (.RAM)). Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
  4. ^ a b c A Conversation with Author Armistead Maupin - on KUOW radio, 2007-06-19
  5. ^ My First Glimpse of The City - in Guest Informant, 1998-1999. Maupin recalls his first experiences of San Francisco.
  6. ^ He has said of San Francisco that he had "no sense of it being a gay mecca" and has called it "this amazing city that embraced me, that had made me aware of my true self", and has said "what really floored me was that the straight folks in San Francisco were so civilised about homosexuality." (in the New York Times interview)
  7. ^ For Armistead Maupin, There Are Still Tales To Tell - Interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He agreed to be identified as a homosexual in a "Ten Most Eligible Bachelors" article in San Francisco Magazine.
  8. ^ Letter to Mama - Michael Tolliver's coming out letter, a response in the book to his parents' participation in Anita Bryant's real-life anti-gay Save Our Children campaign. Maupin used the letter to serve the same purpose for his own parents, who followed the Tales serial.
  9. ^ a b c d "Tolliver's Travels" - Entertainment Weekly, 7 June 2007
  10. ^ a b Tales of the City graphic timeline
  11. ^ Remarks for the Closing Ceremonies of the Gay Games IV, Yankee Stadium, June 25, 1994
  12. ^ Armistead Maupin at the National AIDS Memorial Grove, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
  13. ^ Audio interview about Maupin's New Zealand home
  14. ^ Audio interview with Armistead Maupin on NPR, 2000-11-11
  15. ^ "The First Couple: Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood" - Armistead Maupin interviews Christopher Isherwood for The Village Voice, Volume 30, Number 16
  16. ^ Foreword to 'The Isherwood Century'
  17. ^ a b c Armistead Maupin: The quick-witted author mined his own experience for The Night Listener - in Time Out New York.
  18. ^ Five Questions For Christopher Turner: Daddy-hunt site entrepreneur knows of which he posts - Interview with Christopher Turner in the San Francisco Chronicle
  19. ^ a b Scott, Kemble (2007-04-23). Armistead Maupin’s Family Ties. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.
  20. ^ A Tale of the Seventies TV Guide, January 1994. Article by Maupin about the difficult process of getting the Tales series into TV production.
  21. ^ Seattle Men's Chorus welcomes Armistead Maupin to Benaroya Hall
  22. ^ Behind the scenes: THE OUTSIDER - San Francisco Focus Magazine], October 1992. Interview with Maupin about his friendship with Tamara De Treaux.
  23. ^ Reviews of Maybe the Moon and synopsis
  24. ^ Interview at planetout.com
  25. ^ Audio interview about The Night Listener - on WHYY, October 3, 2000
  26. ^ 'Suddenly Home' - a story featuring the fictional characters in Noone at Night
  27. ^ Literarybent.com - Oft Asked Questions
  28. ^ a b "Armistead Maupin talks!" - Advocate.com
  29. ^ "Sex and the city" - Interview in The Observer
  30. ^ "Latest Maupin tale tells of 'closet of age'" - The Guardian
  31. ^ "Reader, he married him" - Review in The Guardian
  32. ^ Audio interview at the time of publication of Significant Others with Don Swaim

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External links

  • Armistead Maupin official website
  • Literarybent.com - Maupins's previous website, archived on the Wayback Machine; most material is not on the new website
  • Armistead Maupin at the Internet Movie Database
  • GLBTQ.com: Armistead Maupin biography - GLBTQ.com
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The works of Armistead Maupin
Tales of the City Tales of the City · More Tales of the City · Further Tales of the City · Babycakes · Significant Others · Sure of You
Tales of the City (miniseries) · Michael Tolliver Lives
Maybe the Moon · The Night Listener (novel) · The Night Listener (film)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Armistead Maupin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (452 words)
While Maupin has written on his website that it isn't entirely inconceivable that he would write another Tales of the City novel sometime in the future, he tells readers not to bank on it.
Maupin grew up in North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His name, "Armistead Maupin", is an anagram of "is a man I dreamt up", which prompted some speculation that it was pseudonymous.
Tales of the City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (801 words)
In 1976, Maupin pitched a daily serial to the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle, and when they agreed, he drew from the same batch of characters.
Maupin received a letter from a reader who pointed out that one of the character's names was an anagram.
Maupin's books are also one of the first to deal with the AIDS epidemic and incorporate it into the series.
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