| 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
as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force
in Vietnam. |
| Maupin
worked briefly as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina,
before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press
in 1971. The climate of freedom and tolerance he found in his adopted city
inspired him to come out publicly as homosexual in 1974. Two years later
he launched his “Tales of the City” serial in the San Francisco
Chronicle, the first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades. |
| Maupin
is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the
City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and,
most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring
Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three novels in
the Tales series. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin
Williams and Toni Collette. |
Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.
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