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Armistead Maupin

Born

in Washington, D.C., The United States

May 13, 1944

Website

http://www.armisteadmaupin.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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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 as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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 Ta ...more

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Charlotte Talks Conversation With Armistead Maupin

Charlotte Talks is headed to Hickory for a conversation with pioneering LGBT author Armistead Maupin.

The North Carolina-raised writer will join Mike Collins at Lenoir-Rhyne University as part of its Visiting Writers Series.

Maupin has been credited with changing how LGBT persons are portrayed in literature through his "Tales of the City" serial in the 1970s in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the

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Armistead Maupin’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 124,415 ratings · 8,869 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 42,458 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 13,651 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 10,697 ratings — published 1984 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5) 4.07 avg rating — 8,902 ratings — published 1987 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6) 4.05 avg rating — 8,132 ratings — published 1989 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7) 3.96 avg rating — 7,636 ratings — published 2007 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8) 4.03 avg rating — 6,449 ratings — published 2010 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9) 4.08 avg rating — 5,939 ratings — published 2014 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Listener 3.67 avg rating — 5,582 ratings — published 2000 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maybe the Moon 3.71 avg rating — 3,305 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

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“If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.”
― Armistead Maupin

tags: bookstores, minorities

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“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”
― Armistead Maupin

tags: bigotry, christianity, coming-out, equality, family, gay

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Polls

August BoTM Nominations ~ Great American Read ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto final poll

Flowers in the Attic

by V.C. Andrews

7 votes, 15.6%

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

6 votes, 13.3%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith

6 votes, 13.3%

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

6 votes, 13.3%

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

5 votes, 11.1%

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

5 votes, 11.1%

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

3 votes, 6.7%

Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls

2 votes, 4.4%

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

2 votes, 4.4%

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz

2 votes, 4.4%

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

1 vote, 2.2%

45 total votes

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