Armistead Maupin
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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, vis mere 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) vis mindre
Image credit: Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by Jere
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Værker af Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City [1993 TV miniseries] (1978) — Novel; Screenwriter — 41 eksemplarer
More Tales Of The City: Volume One 2 eksemplarer
Suddenly Home 2 eksemplarer
2004 1 eksemplar
Tales 04: Tales Of The City 1 eksemplar
Revealing Mr. Maugham 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Mr. Norris skifter tog / Farvel til Berlin ; på dansk ved H.C. Branner (1945) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 2,142 eksemplarer
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996) — Forord — 117 eksemplarer
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007) — Forord — 104 eksemplarer
Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 73 eksemplarer
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 1 [1993 TV series] — Original novel — 14 eksemplarer
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 3 — Original novel — 5 eksemplarer
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Part 2 — Original novel — 5 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Maupin, Armistead Jones, Jr.
- Fødselsdato
- 1944-05-13
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Bopæl
- San Francisco, California, USA
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
New Zealand
Tesuque, New Mexico, USA - Uddannelse
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA|1966)
- Erhverv
- journalist
naval officer
writer
author
novelist - Relationer
- Turner, Christopher (husband)
- Organisationer
- United States Navy (Vietnam)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1997)
Pioneer Award, Lamba Literary Foundation (2012)
Barbary Coast Award (2007) - Agent
- Steven Barclay Agency
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- 21,951
- Popularitet
- #980
- Vurdering
- 3.8
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- 405
- ISBN
- 395
- Sprog
- 12
- Udvalgt
- 87
- Trædesten
- 336