Author
Armistead Maupin
Birth Date
May 13, 1944
(82 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Armistead Maupin is an American novelist best known for his influential fiction depicting LGBTQ+ life, friendship, and community. Raised in North Carolina, he later moved to California, where his experiences in San Francisco helped shape the settings and characters that would define his literary career. His writing is celebrated for its warmth, humor, and compassionate portrayal of people from diverse backgrounds.
Maupin gained widespread recognition through his serialized stories that evolved into the Tales of the City series. Through these novels, he chronicled social and cultural changes over several decades while creating a memorable cast of interconnected characters. His work helped bring LGBTQ+ experiences into mainstream popular fiction and earned a devoted international readership.
In addition to his novels, Maupin has written memoirs, screenplays, and essays, and several of his works have been adapted for television. Widely regarded as a pioneering voice in contemporary literature, he is known for combining engaging storytelling with themes of acceptance, chosen family, and personal authenticity.
Maupin gained widespread recognition through his serialized stories that evolved into the Tales of the City series. Through these novels, he chronicled social and cultural changes over several decades while creating a memorable cast of interconnected characters. His work helped bring LGBTQ+ experiences into mainstream popular fiction and earned a devoted international readership.
In addition to his novels, Maupin has written memoirs, screenplays, and essays, and several of his works have been adapted for television. Widely regarded as a pioneering voice in contemporary literature, he is known for combining engaging storytelling with themes of acceptance, chosen family, and personal authenticity.
Books
Mona of the Manor 2024
Tales of the City, Book 10
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of...
Logical Family 2017
In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious...
Tales of the City, Book 9
Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her “logical family” in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf;...
Mary Ann in Autumn 2011
Tales of the City, Book 8
Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, as the City by the...
Tales of the City, Book 7
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...
Tales of the City 2007
Tales of the City, Book 1
For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that...
The Night Listener 2001
"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from...
Tales of the City, Book 2
The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert...
Tales of the City, Book 3
The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver...
Sure of You 1994
Tales of the City, Book 6
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man...
Babycakes 1994
Tales of the City, Book 4
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a...
Significant Others 1989
Tales of the City, Book 5
Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem...