The first volume in the widely acclaimed and much-loved series
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1944 but was
brought up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University
of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in Vietnam before
moving to California in 1971 as a reporter for the Associated
Press. In 1976 he launched his daily newspaper serial, Tales of the
City, in the San Francisco Chronicle. The first fiction to appear
in an American daily for decades, Tales grew into an international
sensation when compiled and rewritten as novels. Maupin's
six-volume Tales of the City sequence - Tales of the City, More
Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes,
Significant Others, and Sure of You - are now multi-million
bestsellers published in eleven languages. The first three of these
novels were adapted into widely acclaimed television mini-series.
Maupin's 1992 novel, Maybe the Moon, chronicling the adventures of
the world's shortest woman, was a number one bestseller. His novel
The Night Listener was made into a feature film starring Robin
Williams and Toni Collette in 2006.
Armistead Maupin lives in San Francisco, California. For more
information about Armistead Maupin and his work, please visit his
official author website at- www.armisteadmaupin.com
A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be
able to render love convincingly
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Maupin is a richly gifted comic author
*Observer*
San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and
likeable as Armistead Maupin
*Independent*
Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels
have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of
this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly
contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and
compelling
*Literary Review*
A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be
able to render love convincingly -- Edmund White * The Times
Literary Supplement *
Maupin is a richly gifted comic author * Observer *
San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and
likeable as Armistead Maupin * Independent *
Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels
have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of
this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly
contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and
compelling * Literary Review *
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