Armistead Maupin
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Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (MAW) (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a collection of books set in San Francisco.
Early life
Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin. During the American Civil War, his great-grandfather, Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, was from North Carolina and served as both a railroad executive and a confederate general. Armistead Jones Maupin, his father, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of North Carolina's biggest law firms. Maupin was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962. He enrolled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he wrote for The Daily Tar Heel.
Personal life
Maupin said he was gay since childhood but didn't have sex until he was 26 years old and decided to come out in 1974.
After seeing Turner on a dating site, Maupin married Christopher Turner, a website designer and photographer. On February 18, 2007, Maupin and Turner were married in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Terry Anderson, Maupin's former partner of 12 years, was once a gay rights lawyer who co-authored The Night Listener's script. He lived in San Francisco and New Zealand with Maupin.
Christopher Isherwood served as a mentor, acquaintance, and author.
Maupin is Sarah Jane Morris' cousin.
He is an atheist.
Maupin has published his books as audiobooks.
Maupin bought the home of shoe designers Lynne and Dennis Comeau in Tesuque, New Mexico, in 2012.
The life and times of Maupin are chronicled in Armistead Maupin's book The Untold Tales.
Career
Maupin worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, a station operated by the future United States. Senator Jesse Helms. Maupin was nominated by Helms for a patriotic award, which Maupin received. Maupin said he was a typical conservative and segregationist at the time and admired Helms as a hero figure. At a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol, Maupin later changed his mind and condemned Helms. Maupin, a veteran of the United States Navy, has served on several tours of service, including one in the Vietnam War.
In 1971, Maupin worked at a Charleston newspaper and the Associated Press San Francisco bureau. He began what would become the Tales of the City series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the Pacific Sun, before the Sun's San Francisco edition folded.
Maupin denounced San Francisco Police Inspector Dave Toschi of faking one of the Zodiac Killer's taunting letters to the media in 1978, seriously and irreparably damaging Toschi's career and image. After Maupin based one of his Tales of the City characters on him, Maupin said a similarity was observed among anonymous fan mail Toschi had sent him, according to Maupin, and a Zodiac letter sent by the San Francisco Chronicle on April 24, 1978. Despite the fact that Toschi was found to be the Zodiac letter's author, Toschi was dismissed from the lawsuit, and his chances of replacing Charles Gain as the head of the San Francisco PD were shattered. In the 2007 David Fincher film Zodiac, the incident is depicted.
Awards
- 2007, Barbary Coast Award, presented by Litquake Literary Festival, San Francisco
- 2006, Best Gay Read Award, presented by the Big Gay Read Literature Festival, in the UK
- 2001, Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Book Award
- 1999, Capital Award, presented by GLAAD Media Awards
- 1997 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement (Publishing Triangle)