Editing Armistead Maupin

{{Short description|American writer (born 1944)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Armistead Maupin
| image            = Armistead1994.jpg
| caption          = Armistead in 1994
| birth_name       = Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr.
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1944|5|13}}
| birth_place      = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| alma_mater       = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
| occupation       = Author
| notableworks     = ''[[Tales of the City]]''
| spouse           = {{marriage|Christopher Turner|2007}}
| parents          = 
| children         = 
| module           = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Armistead Maupin BBC Radio4 Bookclub 2 Sept 2007 b007xj7j.flac|title={{center|Armistead Maupin's voice}}|type=speech|description={{center|[[:File:Armistead Maupin BBC Radio4 Bookclub 2 Sept 2007 b007xj7j.flac|Recorded September 2007]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[Bookclub (radio)|Bookclub]]''}}}}
| signature        = Armistead Maupin signature.svg
| relatives        = [[Sarah Jane Morris (singer)|Sarah Jane Morris]] (cousin)
}}
'''Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr.'''<ref name="enotes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/topics/armistead-maupin |title=Armisted Maupin Biography |work=Biography (Great Authors of World Literature, Critical Edition) |access-date=February 23, 2015 |publisher=enotes }}</ref><ref>Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr., birth date 13 May 1944, Age 24, Military Date 5 May 1969 U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Reserve Officers, published January 1970, record held in United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.</ref><ref>Pronounced ''"Maw''pin' as read in English, rather than rhyming with the French "[[Gauguin]]." "Armistead Maupin" is an anagram of 'Is a Man I Dreamt Up.' ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321291/ Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213145457/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321291/ |date=February 13, 2006 }} was the title of a 1990 [[BBC]] documentary on him.) However, neither the name nor Maupin himself were actually 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: {{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/oftasked_01.html |title=Oft Asked Questions |access-date=2015-04-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213145457/http://www.literarybent.com/oftasked_01.html |archive-date=February 13, 2006 }}.</ref> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɔː|p|ɪ|n}} {{respell|MAW-pin}}; born May 13, 1944)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/Bio.html |title=Armistead Maupin Bio |access-date=3 December 2013 |publisher=IMDb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203120024/http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/Bio.html |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560945/bio |title=Armistead Maupin Biography |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=3 December 2013 }}</ref> is an American writer notable for ''[[Tales of the City]]'', a series of novels set in [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maupin |first=Armistead |date=March 7, 2024 |orig-date=March 7, 2024 |title=A Move to England Led Armistead Maupin Back to 'Tales of the City' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/books/review/armistead-maupin-by-the-book-interview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519151440/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/books/review/armistead-maupin-by-the-book-interview.html |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |access-date=2024-08-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Early life==
Maupin was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin.<ref name="enotes.com"/> His great-great-grandfather, Congressman [[Lawrence O'Bryan Branch]], was from North Carolina and was a railroad executive and a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] general during the [[American Civil War]].<ref name="logicalfamily17">{{cite book|last1=Maupin|first1=Armistead|title=[[Logical Family: A Memoir]]|date=2017|publisher=Penguin|location=London, U.K.|isbn=9780857523518|page=17|quote=That's Grandpa Branch. He was a Confederate general who died at Antietam.}}</ref> His father, Armistead Jones Maupin, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in North Carolina.<ref name="sfchroniclefathersobit">{{cite news|last1=Guthrie|first1=Julian|title=Armistead Jones Maupin -- father of 'Tales of City' author|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Armistead-Jones-Maupin-father-of-Tales-of-2651793.php|access-date=December 24, 2017|work=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=July 30, 2005}}</ref> Maupin was raised in [[Raleigh]].<ref name=grow>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_ggir_01.html |title='Growing up Gay in old Raleigh |access-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050306070814/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_ggir_01.html |archive-date=March 6, 2005 }} – in ''The Independent'' of Raleigh, North Carolina, June 1988 – autobiographical memoir</ref>

Maupin attended [[Ravenscroft School]] and graduated from [[Needham Broughton High School]] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbhs1962.com/class_profile_empty.cfm?member_id=4934526|title = Armistead Maupin, Raleigh, NC North Carolina currently in San Francisco, CA USA}}</ref> He attended the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], where he wrote for ''[[The Daily Tar Heel]].''<ref name=kuow>[http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=12952 A Conversation with Author Armistead Maupin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205035008/http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=12952 |date=December 5, 2007 }} – on [[KUOW-FM]] radio, 2007-06-19</ref>

==Career==
Maupin worked at [[WRAL-TV]] in Raleigh, a station managed by future U.S. Senator [[Jesse Helms]]. Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which Maupin won. Maupin said he was a typical conservative and [[segregationist]] at this time and admired Helms as a hero figure. Maupin later changed his opinion and condemned Helms at a [[pride parade|gay pride parade]] on the steps of the [[North Carolina State Capitol]].<ref name=grow/><ref name=ny>{{cite interview |subject=Armistead Maupin |interviewer=Bill Goldstein |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/ra/maupin-audio.ram |format=.RAM |work=New York Times |date=October 24, 2000 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090410085606/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/ra/maupin-audio.ram| archive-date=April 10, 2009| url-status= live |title=Audio interview by Bill Goldstein}}</ref><ref name=kuow/> Maupin is a veteran of the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] and served several tours of duty including one in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maupin |first=Armistead |title=Logical family: a memoir |date=2018 |publisher=Black Swan |isbn=978-1-78416-104-0 |location=London}}</ref>

Maupin worked at a [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] newspaper and the San Francisco bureau of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_glimpse_01.html |title=My First Glimpse of The City |access-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050520074826/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_glimpse_01.html |archive-date=May 20, 2005 }} – in ''Guest Informant'', 1998–1999. Maupin recalls his first experiences of San Francisco.</ref><ref>He said he had "no sense of it being a gay mecca" and called it "this amazing city that embraced me, that had made me aware of my true self", and "what really floored me was that the straight folks in San Francisco were so civilised about homosexuality." (in the ''New York Times'' interview)</ref> In 1974, he began what would become the ''Tales of the City'' series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the ''[[Pacific Sun (newspaper)|Pacific Sun]],'' moving to the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' after the ''Sun''{{'s}} San Francisco edition folded.<ref name=time/>

In 1978, Maupin publicly accused San Francisco Police Inspector [[Dave Toschi]] of faking one of the [[Zodiac Killer]]'s taunting letters to the media, seriously and irreparably damaging Toschi's career and reputation. Maupin claimed to have noticed a similarity between anonymous fan mail Toschi had sent him after Maupin based one of his ''Tales of the City'' characters on him, and a Zodiac letter received by the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' on April 24, 1978. Although the USPS crime lab cleared Toschi of being the Zodiac letter's author, Toschi admitted to writing the fan mail and was removed from the case, destroying his chances of succeeding [[Charles Gain]] as chief of the San Francisco PD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zodiacciphers.com/the-1978-letter.html|title = The 1978 Letter}}</ref> The incident is portrayed in the 2007 [[David Fincher]] film ''[[Zodiac (film)|Zodiac]]''.

==Works==

===''Tales of the City''===
{{main|Tales of the City}}
''Tales of the City'' is a series of novels, the first portions of which were published initially as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974, in a [[Marin County, California|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 (novel)|Tales of the City]]'', was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 1980s, ending with the last book, ''[[Sure of You]]'', in 1989.<ref name=time>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/totc_04_timeline_01.html |title=''Tales of the City'' graphic timeline |date=May 15, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515202422/http://www.literarybent.com/totc_04_timeline_01.html |archive-date=May 15, 2006 }}</ref>

A seventh novel published in 2007, ''[[Michael Tolliver Lives]]'', continues the story of some of the characters. It was followed by an eighth volume, ''[[Mary Ann in Autumn]]'', published in 2010 and a ninth volume, ''[[The Days of Anna Madrigal]]'', in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/books/the-days-of-anna-madrigal-concluding-tales-of-the-city.html?_r=0 |title=Saying Goodbye to a City and Its Characters: 'The Days of Anna Madrigal,' Concluding 'Tales of the City' |author=Charles Isherwood |date=30 January 2014 |access-date=13 February 2014 |publisher=The New York Times, Books of the Times}}</ref> In ''[[Babycakes]]'', published in 1984, Maupin was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS.<ref name=EW/> Of the autobiographical nature of the characters, he says "I've always been all of the characters in one way or another."<ref name="pub">{{cite web |last=Scott |first=Kemble |date=April 23, 2007 |title=Armistead Maupin's Family Ties |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6435454.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429031921/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6435454.html |archive-date=April 29, 2007 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>

The ''Tales of the City'' books have been translated into ten languages, and there are more than six million copies in print. Several of the books have been adapted and broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref name="BBC Radio 4">{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qffmr |title= Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website= [[BBC Online]] | access-date= 21 May 2016}}</ref>

====Television miniseries====
{{main|Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)|Tales of the City (2019 miniseries)}}

The first three books in the series have also been adapted into three television [[miniseries]] starring [[Olympia Dukakis]] and [[Laura Linney]]. A co-production with the UK's [[Channel 4]], the first miniseries was on [[PBS]]; subsequent miniseries appeared on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_taleofthe70s.html |title=A Tale of the Seventies |access-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041228044112/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_taleofthe70s.html |archive-date=December 28, 2004 }} ''[[TV Guide]]'', January 1994. Article by Maupin about the difficult process of getting the ''Tales'' series into TV production.</ref> Dukakis, Linney, and various other cast members from the original series, reunited for the [[Tales of the City (2019 miniseries)|2019 ''Tales'' miniseries on Netflix]] which was not based directly on one of Maupin's novels but used elements from several, including the latter three.

====Musical projects====
He collaborated on ''Anna Madrigal Remembers'', a musical work written by [[Jake Heggie]] and performed by choir [[Chanticleer (ensemble)|Chanticleer]] and [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Frederica von Stade]] on August 6, 1999, for which Maupin provided a new [[libretto]]. He also participated in a concert series with the Seattle Men's Chorus entitled ''Tunes From Tales (Music for Mouse)'', which included readings from his books and music from the era.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sgn.org/Archives/sgn.3.5.99/Arts/ |title=Seattle Men's Chorus welcomes Armistead Maupin to Benaroya Hall |date=October 6, 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031006120910/http://www.sgn.org/Archives/sgn.3.5.99/Arts/ |archive-date=October 6, 2003 }}</ref>

In May 2011, a theatrical musical version of ''Tales of the City'' had its premiere at [[American Conservatory Theater]] in San Francisco. The musical has a score and lyrics by [[Jake Shears]] and John Garden of the rock band [[Scissor Sisters]], and a book by [[Jeff Whitty]]. It was directed by [[Jason Moore (director)|Jason Moore]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/theater/03arts-DEBUTISANNOU_BRF.html | work=The New York Times | title=Debut Is Announced for 'Tales of the City' | first=Patrick | last=Healy | date=April 3, 2010 | access-date=2010-04-25}}</ref>

===''Maybe the Moon'' and ''The Night Listener''===
{{main|Maybe the Moon|The Night Listener (novel)|The Night Listener (film)}}

Maupin wrote two novels, ''Maybe The Moon'' and ''The Night Listener'', which are not part of ''Tales''.

''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 played the title character in the 1982 film ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/mtm_04_behind.html |title=Behind the scenes: THE OUTSIDER |access-date=2006-03-04 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060304204018/http://www.literarybent.com/mtm_04_behind.html |archive-date=March 4, 2006 }} – ''San Francisco Focus Magazine]'', October 1992. Interview with Maupin about his friendship with Tamara De Treaux.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/mtm_02_about.html |title=Reviews of ''Maybe the Moon'' and synopsis |date=March 4, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060304204013/http://www.literarybent.com/mtm_02_about.html |archive-date=March 4, 2006 }}</ref>

''The Night Listener'' is a [[roman à clef]], inspired by Maupin's experiences concerning the [[Anthony Godby Johnson]] hoax.<ref name="out">{{cite web |date=December 27, 2023 |title=Armistead Maupin: The quick-witted author mined his own experience for The Night Listener |url=http://www.timeoutny.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/566/hot_seat/armistead_maupin.xml}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Paul Colichman Chief Executive Officer |url=http://www.planetout.com/pno/entertainment/books/interviews/2000/10/maupin.html |title=Interview at |publisher=Planetout.com |date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815232103/http://www.planetout.com/pno/entertainment/books/interviews/2000/10/maupin.html |archive-date=August 15, 2007 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111947 Audio interview about ''The Night Listener''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211906/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111947 |date=March 3, 2016 }} – on [[WHYY-FM]], October 3, 2000</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_suddenly_01.html |title=Suddenly Home |access-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213145829/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_suddenly_01.html |archive-date=February 13, 2006 }} – a story featuring the fictional characters in ''Noone at Night''</ref> He says he wanted to create a [[psychological thriller]], while being able to put autobiographical elements in it.<ref name=ny/> The issues he addresses include the ending of his relationship with his [[life partner|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 serialized on the internet, on [[Salon.com]], prior to its print publication.<ref name=ny/> ''The Night Listener'' was adapted into a movie that was screened at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in late January 2006 and released by [[Miramax]] the following August.<ref name=out/>

===''Michael Tolliver Lives''===
{{main|Michael Tolliver Lives}}

Prior to the 2007 release of ''Michael Tolliver Lives'', Maupin had been quoted on his website as saying that another ''Tales of the City'' novel was unlikely.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literarybent.com/oftasked_01.html |title=Oft Asked Questions |work=Literary Bent .com |date=February 13, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213145457/http://www.literarybent.com/oftasked_01.html |archive-date=February 13, 2006 }}</ref> Although Maupin originally stated that this novel was "NOT a sequel to ''Tales [of the City]'' and it's certainly not Book 7 in the series,"<ref>{{cite web |author=Armistead Maupin |url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780060761356&itm=1 |title=Michael Tolliver Lives |publisher=Search.barnesandnoble.com |year=2007 |access-date=3 December 2013 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123510/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780060761356&itm=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he later conceded that "I've stopped denying that this is book seven in ''Tales of the City'', as it clearly is ... I suppose I didn't want people to be thrown by the change in the format, as this is a first person novel unlike the third person format of the ''Tales of the City'' books and it's about one character who interrelates with other characters. Having said that, it is still very much a continuation of the saga and I think I realised it was very much time for me to come back to this territory."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.pinkpaper.com/Feature.aspx?id=73|title=I might well come back to Mr Tolliver one more time |first=Steve|last=Bustin |publisher=PinkPaper.com |date=10 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716163144/http://news.pinkpaper.com/Feature.aspx?id=73|archive-date=July 16, 2011 }}</ref>

The novel is written from the [[first-person narrative|first-person]] perspective of ''Tales'' character Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, now in his fifties and living as an HIV-positive man.<ref name=ad>[http://www.advocate.com/print_article_ektid35157.asp "Armistead Maupin talks!"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203002954/http://www.advocate.com/print_article_ektid35157.asp |date=December 3, 2008 }} – Advocate.com</ref> It also features appearances by familiar ''Tales'' characters, such as Anna Madrigal.<ref>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,2098649,00.html "Sex and the city"]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – Interview in ''[[The Observer]]''</ref> 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."<ref name=EW>{{cite magazine |last=Reese |first=Jennifer |date=June 11, 2007 |title=Armistead Maupin on his new ''Tales'' update |url=https://ew.com/article/2007/06/11/armistead-maupin-his-new-tales-update/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref> He calls it "a smaller, more personal novel than I've written in the past."<ref name=ad/> The book was released on June 12, 2007, which was declared 'Michael Tolliver Day' by the [[mayor of San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/usa/story/0,2101187,00.html |title=Latest Maupin tale tells of 'closet of age' |work=The Guardian |location=London }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,2104040,00.html "Reader, he married him"]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – Review in ''The Guardian''</ref>

''Mary Ann in Autumn'' was published November 12, 2010 by Harper/HarperCollins, continuing the series. It was reviewed by Joseph Salvatore in the ''New York Times'' Sunday Book Reviews on November 14.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Salvatore-t.html?emc=eta1 | work=The New York Times | first=Joseph | last=Salvatore | title=Book Review – Mary Ann in Autumn – By Armistead Maupin | date=November 12, 2010}}</ref> It was followed in January 2014 by ''[[The Days of Anna Madrigal]]'', which Maupin said would be the final novel in the series.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/books/the-days-of-anna-madrigal-concluding-tales-of-the-city.html?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Charles | last=Isherwood | title=Saying Goodbye to a City and Its Characters: 'The Days of Anna Madrigal,' Concluding 'Tales of the City' | date=January 30, 2014}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:ArmisteadMaupinChristopherTurnerHWOFMay2013.jpg|thumb|right|Maupin (left) with husband Christopher Turner in 2013.]]
Maupin has stated that he recognized his sexual orientation as gay from a young age,<ref name="ny" /><ref name="kuow" /> although he did not engage in sexual activity until he was 25, and decided to [[Coming out|come out]] in 1974.<ref name="grow" /><ref>{{usurped|1=[http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090711130525/http://www.bradlands.com/words/post/maupin-writethru.html 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.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Letter to Mama |url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_lettertomama.html |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050411183918/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_lettertomama.html |archive-date=April 11, 2005 |access-date=2017-04-07}} – Michael Tolliver's [[coming out]] letter, a response in the book to his parents' participation in [[Anita Bryant]]'s [[LGBT rights opposition|anti-gay]] [[Save Our Children]] campaign. Maupin used the letter to serve the same purpose for his own parents, who followed the ''Tales'' serial.</ref><ref name="EW" /> For 12 years, he was in a relationship with Terry Anderson, a [[gay rights]] activist who co-authored the screenplay for [[The Night Listener (film)|''The Night Listener'']]. The couple lived together in both San Francisco and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 3, 2004 |title=Audio interview about Maupin's New Zealand home |url=http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/audio/rafiles/2000/09.01/int000901.ram |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624044048/http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/audio/rafiles/2000/09.01/int000901.ram |archive-date=June 24, 2007}}</ref>

After his breakup with Anderson, Maupin married Christopher Turner, a website producer and photographer, whom he met through a dating website.<ref name="out" /><ref>{{cite news |author=Christopher Turner |date=June 17, 2007 |title=Five Questions for Christopher Turner: Daddy-hunt site entrepreneur knows of which he posts |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/17/LVGKQQFA851.DTL |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> The couple was [[gay marriage|married]] in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada, on February 18, 2007.<ref name="pub" /> In 2012, Maupin purchased a home in [[Tesuque, New Mexico]], previously owned by shoe designers Lynne and [[Dennis Comeau]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20130722150755/http://www.sfnewmexican.com/Leisure/101412mitote%23.Ue1IfESE4pI "Santa Fe New Mexican", October 14, 2012]</ref> In 2019, Maupin and Turner relocated to London,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Shariatmadari |first=David |date=2024-02-24 |title='Look at your country! It's amazing': Armistead Maupin on moving to London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/24/look-at-your-country-its-amazing-armistead-maupin-on-moving-to-london |access-date=2024-03-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> settling in Clapham.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ivey |first=Prudence |date=2021-10-05 |title=Armistead Maupin's guide to the south-west London area he calls home |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-live/clapham-area-guide-tales-of-the-city-armistead-maupin-b958737.html |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref> In November 2023, Maupin became a British citizen.<ref name=":0" />

Maupin's life and work are explored in the documentary ''The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin |url=https://www.armisteadfilm.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181101/https://www.armisteadfilm.com/ |archive-date=January 9, 2018 |access-date=January 9, 2018}}</ref> Early in his career, he was mentored by writer [[Christopher Isherwood]], who had a significant influence on his writing.<ref>{{cite web |title=The First Couple: Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood |url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_ish_intrv_01.html |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060305020223/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_ish_intrv_01.html |archive-date=March 5, 2006 |access-date=2017-04-07}} – Armistead Maupin interviews [[Christopher Isherwood]] for [[The Village Voice]], Volume 30, Number 16</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=March 5, 2006 |title=Foreword to 'The Isherwood Century' |url=http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_isherwd_01.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060305020217/http://www.literarybent.com/am_04_also_by_isherwd_01.html |archive-date=March 5, 2006}}</ref> Maupin identifies as an [[atheist]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Thompson, Stephen |date=October 9, 2002 |title=Is There A God? |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/is-there-a-god-1413 |access-date=May 8, 2015 |publisher=The AV Club}}</ref> and is a cousin of the British singer [[Sarah Jane Morris (singer)|Sarah Jane Morris]], formerly of [[The Communards]].<ref name="ny" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Morris |first=Sarah Jane |author-link=Sarah Jane Morris (singer) |title=Naughties Overview |url=http://www.sarahjanemorris.co.uk/naughties |access-date=March 12, 2014}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Tales of the City===
*{{cite book |title=[[Tales of the City (novel)|Tales of the City]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1978|isbn=0-06-090654-5}}
*{{cite book |title=[[More Tales of the City (novel)|More Tales of the City]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1980 |isbn=0-06-090726-6}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Further Tales of the City (novel)|Further Tales of the City]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1982 |isbn=0-06-014991-4}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Babycakes]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1984 |isbn=0-06-015262-1}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Significant Others (novel)|Significant Others]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1987 |isbn=0-06-096408-1}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Sure of You]] |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1989 |isbn=0-06-016164-7}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Michael Tolliver Lives]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-06-076135-6}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Mary Ann in Autumn]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-06-147088-2}}
*{{cite book |title=[[The Days of Anna Madrigal]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-06-219624-8}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Mona of the Manor]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2024 |isbn=978-0-06-297359-7}}

===Other novels===
*{{cite book |title=[[Maybe the Moon (novel)|Maybe the Moon]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1992 |isbn=0-06-016552-9}}
*{{cite book |title=[[The Night Listener (novel)|The Night Listener]] |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2000 |isbn=0-06-017143-X}}

===Memoir===
*{{cite book|last1=Maupin|first1=Armistead|title=[[Logical Family: A Memoir]]|date=2017|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=9780062391223|oclc=1004769227}}

===Compilations===
*{{cite book |title=28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Books 1--3 |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-06-249901-1}} Contains ''Tales of the City'', ''More Tales of the City'', and ''Further Tales of the City''.
*{{cite book |title=Back to Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Books 4--6 |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-06-256129-9}} Contains ''Babycakes'', ''Significant Others'', and ''Sure of You''.
*{{cite book |title=Goodbye Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Books 7--9 |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-06-256377-4}} Contains ''Michael Tolliver Lives'', ''Mary Ann in Autumn'', and ''The Days of Anna Madrigal''.

==Awards==
* 2007, [[Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California|Barbary Coast]] Award, presented by [[Litquake]] Literary Festival, San Francisco<ref>
{{cite news |first=Sue |last=Gilmore |title=Maupin Up for Another Award |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_6550321 |work=San Jose Mercury News |date=August 5, 2007 |access-date=2007-10-10}}</ref>
* 2006, Best Gay Read Award, presented by the Big Gay Read Literature Festival, in the UK<ref>{{cite news |first=David |last=Ward |title=Chronicler of San Francisco wins best gay read award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/11/gayrights.books |work=The Guardian |date=May 11, 2006 |access-date=2007-10-10 | location=London}}</ref>
* 2001, Gay, Lesbian & [[bisexuality|Bisexual]] Book Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Book_The_Night_Listener_A_Novel_Armistead_Maupin |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728095806/http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Book_The_Night_Listener_A_Novel_Armistead_Maupin |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-28 |title=Armistead Maupin – The Night Listener: Product Features |access-date=2007-10-10 |work=dealtime.com }}</ref>
* 1999, Capital Award, presented by [[GLAAD]] Media Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560945/awards |title=Armistead Maupin |access-date=2007-10-10 |work=imdb}}</ref>
* 1997 [[Bill Whitehead Award]] for Lifetime Achievement ([[Publishing Triangle]])

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* Gale, Patrick. Armistead Maupin. Bath, Somerset, England: Absolute Press, 1999. {{ISBN|1-899791-37-X}}
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*[http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/ Armistead Maupin official website]
*[http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Maupin,%20Armistead Armistead Maupin at Random House Australia]
*{{Cite web |url=http://www.literarybent.com/litbent_home.cfm |title=Literarybent.com |access-date=April 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515202410/http://www.literarybent.com/litbent_home.cfm |archive-date=May 15, 2006 |url-status=bot: unknown |df=mdy-all }} – Maupin's previous website, archived on the Wayback Machine; most material is not on the new website
*{{IMDb name|0560945|Armistead Maupin}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509133334/http://www.bigfib.com/lit/issue1/maupin-interview.html Armistead Maupin Interviewed]
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