Armistead Maupin - Written works

Novelist, born in Washington District of Columbia, USA. He attended the University of North Carolina, and after serving as a naval officer in Vietnam he settled in California in 1971. The six volumes of his Tales of the City sequence (beginning in 1978) have been praised for their unsentimental portrait of gay lifestyle on the US West Coast. Later novels include Night Listener (2000).

His work on a Charleston newspaper prompted Maupin's move to California, where he later went on to write for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Written works

His most noted work to date is his six-book series collectively titled Tales of the City, the first portions of which were initially published as a newspaper serial starting in 1974 in a Marin County newspaper, followed by the San Francisco Chronicle and later compiled into a series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper & In 1978, Maupin produced a collection of his columns entitled Tales of the City at the urging of a friend at Harper & The Tales of the City books have been translated into ten languages and there are more than two million copies in print. The first three books in the series have also been converted into three television miniseries, the first airing on the American television network PBS and the latter two on the American premium cable television channel Showtime.

Later works by Maupin, not part of the Tales series, include The Night Listener and Maybe The Moon. Maupin's 2000 novel The Night Listener has been adapted into a movie that was screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in late January. The Night Listener's plot bears resemblance to a controversy by a book allegedly written by Anthony Godby Johnson.

Maupin has stated on his website that another Tales of the City novel is unlikely. However, he has written "Michael Tolliver Lives", which "is not a sequel to 'Tales' and it's certainly not Book 7 in the series." Although the book may have brief appearances by a "Tales" character or two, it focuses on "Mouse" and how his life is at 55, living with HIV.

Bibliography

Tales of the City More Tales of the City Further Tales of the City Babycakes Significant Others Sure of You Maybe the Moon The Night Listener Michael Tolliver Lives!