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Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (/ ˈ m ɔː p ɪ n / MAW-pin; born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco. Early life [ edit ]
The official website of the iconic novelist. Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" series have sold millions of copies worldwide. They have been adapted into a mini-series first on PBS and Showtime in the 90's, and now a new Original Netflix Series to be released in 2019.
Tales of the City is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBT.
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served ...
Launched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney, to an ambitious new mu...
Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled ...
Armistead Maupin (born May 13, 1944, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American novelist best known for his Tales of the City series, which chronicles the lives of the eccentric inhabitants of an apartment complex, affectionately called by its address, 28 Barbary Lane, in 1970s San Francisco.
