Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin was born on May 13, 1944 in USA. Armistead Maupin's big-screen debut came with The Celluloid Closet directed by Rob Epstein in 1995, strarring Self. Armistead Maupin is known for More Tales of the City directed by Pierre Gang, Olympia Dukakis stars as Anna Madrigal and Laura Linney as Mary Ann Singleton. Armistead Maupin has got 1 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Armistead Maupin achieved is GLAAD Media Awards. The upcoming new movie Armistead Maupin plays is The Night Listener which will be released on Aug 04, 2006.

Born May 13, 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States as Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr., he is an American writer, best known for the "Tales of the City" novels. His parents were Armistead Jones Maupin, co-founder of the Maupin, Taylor & Ellis law firm, and Diana Jane (nee Barton). He graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962 and went on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked for Channel 5 and received a patriotic award that the station's manager, future U.S. Senator Jesse Helms nominated him to. Maupin later renounced Helms' conservative beliefs. He served several tours of duty in the United States Navy. He wrote for a number of newspapers and in 1971 became a member of the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press. In 1974 he came out as gay, although he claims he had known he was homosexual since childhood. In 1976 he published "Tales of the City", the first novel in a series of nine books. He's been married to website producer and photographer Christopher Turner since 2007.