Armistead Maupin
Autor(a) de Tales of the City
About the Author
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington D.C. on May 13, 1944. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. He worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, mostrar mais 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. The series describes a group of characters that live together in a boarding house in San Francisco. Eventually, these Tales were collected into a series of six novels. In 1993, the British Broadcasting Company adapted them for a television series that aired on PBS in 1994. His other works include Maybe the Moon, Michael Tolliver Lives, and The Days of Anna Madrigal. The Night Listener was adapted into a movie starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by Jere
Séries
Obras de Armistead Maupin
The Night Listener Part Two 2 cópias
Night Listener, The 2 cópias
Suddenly Home 2 cópias
More Tales Of The City: Volume One 2 cópias
2004 1 exemplar(es)
Revealing Mr. Maugham 1 exemplar(es)
Tales 04: Tales Of The City 1 exemplar(es)
1995 Couples National Network San Francisco Bay Area Convention - 10th Anniversary Celebration "Tales of the City… 1 exemplar(es)
Chroniques de San Francisco - tome 3 (3) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contribuinte — 179 cópias
Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996) — Prefácio — 120 cópias
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007) — Prefácio — 104 cópias
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 1 [1993 TV series] — Original novel — 14 cópias
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 3 — Original novel — 5 cópias
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 2 — Original novel — 5 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Maupin, Armistead
- Nome de batismo
- Maupin, Armistead Jones, Jr.
- Data de nascimento
- 1944-05-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Locais de residência
- San Francisco, California, USA
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
New Zealand
Tesuque, New Mexico, USA - Educação
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA|1966)
- Ocupação
- journalist
naval officer
writer
author
novelist - Relacionamentos
- Turner, Christopher (husband)
- Organizações
- United States Navy (Vietnam)
- Premiações
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1997)
Pioneer Award, Lamba Literary Foundation (2012)
Barbary Coast Award (2007) - Agente
- Steven Barclay Agency
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
A Novel Cure (1)
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 39
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 22,278
- Popularidade
- #957
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 418
- ISBNs
- 397
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 88
A loving portrait of 1970s San Francisco, with "oh no they DIDN'T!" moments that made me audibly gasp about every ten pages. I want to read all of them forever. Easy to read; you can tell it was originally serialized.
The way Maupin handles some things (