Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Armistead Maupin

June 2024

  • Summer reading 2024

    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

    Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer

March 2024

  • Armistead Maupin at home in London.

    Book of the day
    Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin review – tales of the country

    This playful encore to a much-loved series moves from San Francisco to a grand English estate

February 2024

  • Armistead Maupin at his house in London.

    ‘Look at your country! It’s amazing’: Armistead Maupin on moving to London

    The Tales of the City author made his name as the bard of San Francisco, but now calls Clapham home. He talks about becoming a British citizen, his new novel set in the Cotswolds and missing California weed

December 2021

  • Murray Bartlett.

    The Observer's faces of 2021
    Murray Bartlett: ‘Filming The White Lotus in lockdown felt like a TV summer camp’

    The Australian actor on creating his character Armond, the magic of Tales of the City and that meme-inspiring suitcase scene

October 2021

  • Tales of the City.

    How we made
    Armistead Maupin and Laura Linney: how we made Tales of the City

    ‘I thought we were going to make history with our same sex kiss. And we did. There were protests all over America – and a bomb threat in Chattanooga’

August 2020

  • Sir Ian McKellen

    Ian McKellen: UK government 'underestimated' public on Covid lockdown

    At live-streamed event, actor says people weren’t trusted ‘to be grown up’ and follow restrictions during coronavirus outbreak

February 2020

  • The TV adaptation of Tales of the City

    Further reading
    The best books about new beginnings

    Uplifting titles from Tara Westover’s memoir Educated to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City offer escape and inspiration

August 2019

  • Armistead Maupin

    The Q&A
    Armistead Maupin: ‘How do I relax? Grass’

    The author on being in drag, coming out and Donald Trump

June 2019

  • Armistead Maupin, Independent UK, Februaury 16, 2014<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 05: Writer Armistead Maupin is photographed for the Independent on February 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Schofield/Contour by Getty Images)

    This much I know
    Armistead Maupin: ‘Being gay liberated me’

  • Tales of the City

    ‘All our writers are queer’: why Tales of the City is still a revolutionary show

February 2019

  • Rachael Stirling (left) as Nan in the BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet.

    Top 10s
    From Tales of the City to Tipping the Velvet: top 10 books about coming out

    Novelist Kate Davies picks the best books about a task that never happens just once

March 2018

  • Armistead Maupin

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what are the best titles for LGBTQ+ representation?

    Armistead Maupin, Jeanette Winterson and a host of other good writers have brought gay literature into the mainstream

December 2017

  • princess margaret meets the beatles at the premiere of their film help in 1965

    Best books of 2017
    Tim Adams’s best biographies of 2017

    From rock’n’roll to Anthony Powell via a crop of memoirs, there’s something for everyone in the year’s life studies

October 2017

  • Armistead Maupin

    A life in ...
    Armistead Maupin: ‘I wrote the memoir to show I had made a journey from darkness’

  • Armistead Maupin<br>Gay writer Armistead Maupin in wool coat, posing by steps nr. home on Macondray St. (Photo by Kim Komenich/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

    Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin review – in search of a second family

August 2017

  • TALES OF THE CITY (TVM) LAURA LINNEY, PAUL GROSS TLSO 002<br>BJKETX TALES OF THE CITY (TVM) LAURA LINNEY, PAUL GROSS TLSO 002

    Reading group
    Reading group: which book about gay life should we read in August?

    To mark the 50th anniversary of decriminalisation in the UK, please help choose a novel to mark the occasion. There are hundreds to choose from

July 2017

  • AFI's 43rd Life Achievement Award Gala honoring Steve Martin, Los Angeles, America - 04 Jun 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock (4822794ak)
Randy Newman
AFI's 43rd Life Achievement Award Gala honoring Steve Martin, Los Angeles, America - 04 Jun 2015

    The week in radio: Randy Newman’s America; Wimbledon; Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: The Days of Anna Madrigal

    The grizzly American songwriter proved as compelling in conversation as he is on record, while Mrs Madrigal was rooted in the past

April 2015

  • John Hillcoat's film version of The Road.

    Books blog
    Has US literature woken from the American dream?

    The national myth of happiness pursued and won has always been contested in fiction – and its promise seems almost extinct in some contemporary novels

February 2015

  • Golden Gate

    Reading American cities
    Reading American cities: books about San Francisco

    Younger and smaller than most great American cities, San Francisco has a rich cultural heritage. Anisse Gross picks out the literary landmarks of this west coastal city, from its first newspaper chroniclers to the Beats and beyond

May 2014

  • TALES OF THE CITY

    Armistead Maupin and Tales of the City - quiz

    The creator of the much-loved novel sequence turns 70 this week. Find out how well you know your way around his San Francisco

About 54 results for Armistead Maupin