Maupin, Armistead

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Maupin, Armistead (1944– ), American writer, best known for a sequence of six comic novels depicting alternative lifestyles in San Francisco, beginning with Tales of the City (1978) and ending with Sure of You (1989). Beginning life as a daily newspaper serial, this joyous roman fleuve about the inhabitants of a bohemian boarding house broke new ground in its high-spirited celebration of gay subcultures. Maupin was also one of the first writers to chronicle the AIDS epidemic. Maybe the Moon (1992) was a more muted satire on hypocrisy in the film business.

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