Английская Википедия:Armistead Maupin

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr.[1][2][3] (Шаблон:IPAc-en Шаблон:Respell) (born May 13, 1944)[4][5] is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

Early life

Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin.[1] His great-great-grandfather, Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, was from North Carolina and was a railroad executive and a Confederate general during the American Civil War.[6] His father, Armistead Jones Maupin, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in North Carolina.[7] Maupin was raised in Raleigh.[8]

Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962.[9] He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote for The Daily Tar Heel.[10]

Career

Maupin worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, a station managed by future U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which Maupin won. Maupin said he was a typical conservative and segregationist at this time and admired Helms as a hero figure. Maupin later changed his opinion and condemned Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol.[8][11][10] Maupin is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served several tours of duty including one in the Vietnam War.[12]

Maupin worked at a Charleston newspaper and the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971.[13][14] In 1974, he began what would become the Tales of the City series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the Pacific Sun, moving to the San Francisco Chronicle after the SunШаблон:'s San Francisco edition folded.[15]

In 1978, Maupin publicly accused San Francisco Police Inspector Dave Toschi of faking one of the Zodiac Killer's taunting letters to the media, seriously and irreparably damaging Toschi's career and reputation. Maupin claimed to have noticed a similarity between anonymous fan mail Toschi had sent him after Maupin based one of his Tales of the City characters on him, and a Zodiac letter received by the San Francisco Chronicle on April 24, 1978. Although the USPS crime lab cleared Toschi of being the Zodiac letter's author, Toschi admitted to writing the fan mail and was removed from the case, destroying his chances of succeeding Charles Gain as chief of the San Francisco PD.[16] The incident is portrayed in the 2007 David Fincher film Zodiac.

Works

Tales of the City

Шаблон:Main

Файл:Armistead1994.jpg
Maupin at the 47th Emmy Awards, 1994

Tales of the City is a series of novels, the first portions of which were published initially as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974, in a Marin County newspaper, The Pacific Sun, picked up in 1976 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and later reworked into the series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper and Row). The first of Maupin's novels, entitled Tales of the City, was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 1980s, ending with the last book, Sure of You, in 1989.[15]

A seventh novel published in 2007, Michael Tolliver Lives, continues the story of some of the characters. It was followed by an eighth volume, Mary Ann in Autumn, published in 2010 and a ninth volume, The Days of Anna Madrigal, in 2014.[17] In Babycakes, published in 1984, Maupin was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS.[18] Of the autobiographical nature of the characters, he says "I've always been all of the characters in one way or another."[19]

The Tales of the City books have been translated into ten languages, and there are more than six million copies in print. Several of the books have been adapted and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[20]

Television miniseries

Шаблон:Main

The first three books in the series have also been adapted into three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney. A co-production with the UK's Channel 4, the first miniseries was on PBS; subsequent miniseries appeared on Showtime.[21] Dukakis, Linney, and various other cast members from the original series, reunited for the 2019 Tales miniseries on Netflix which was not based directly on one of Maupin's novels but used elements from several, including the latter three.

Musical projects

He collaborated on Anna Madrigal Remembers, a musical work written by Jake Heggie and performed by choir Chanticleer and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade on August 6, 1999, for which Maupin provided a new libretto. He also participated in a concert series with the Seattle Men's Chorus entitled Tunes From Tales (Music for Mouse), which included readings from his books and music from the era.[22]

In May 2011, a theatrical musical version of Tales of the City had its premiere at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. The musical has a score and lyrics by Jake Shears and John Garden of the rock band Scissor Sisters, and a book by Jeff Whitty. It was directed by Jason Moore.[23]

Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener

Шаблон:Main

Maupin wrote two novels, Maybe The Moon and The Night Listener, which are not part of Tales.

Maybe The Moon is a story Maupin describes as "partly autobiographical", despite the main character being a female heterosexual Jewish dwarf. The character was also based on his friend Tamara De Treaux, who played the title character in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[24][25]

The Night Listener is a roman à clef, inspired by Maupin's experiences concerning the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax.[26][27][28][29] He says he wanted to create a psychological thriller, while being able to put autobiographical elements in it.[11] The issues he addresses include the ending of his relationship with his long-term partner and his relationship with his father. The book very lightly references the Tales world via Gabriel Noone's assistant, who is one of DeDe Halcyon-Day's twins from Tales. It was serialized on the internet, on Salon.com, prior to its print publication.[11] The Night Listener was adapted into a movie that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in late January 2006 and released by Miramax the following August.[26]

Michael Tolliver Lives

Шаблон:Main

Prior to the 2007 release of Michael Tolliver Lives, Maupin had been quoted on his website as saying that another Tales of the City novel was unlikely.[30] Although Maupin originally stated that this novel was "NOT a sequel to Tales [of the City] and it's certainly not Book 7 in the series,"[31] he later conceded that "I've stopped denying that this is book seven in Tales of the City, as it clearly is ... I suppose I didn't want people to be thrown by the change in the format, as this is a first person novel unlike the third person format of the Tales of the City books and it's about one character who interrelates with other characters. Having said that, it is still very much a continuation of the saga and I think I realised it was very much time for me to come back to this territory."[32]

The novel is written from the first-person perspective of Tales character Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, now in his fifties and living as an HIV-positive man.[33] It also features appearances by familiar Tales characters, such as Anna Madrigal.[34] Maupin said: "I was interested in pursuing the life of an aging gay man, and Michael was the perfect vehicle ... However, as soon as I started writing, I found that, one by one, all the other characters stepped forward and asked to be present. It felt natural, so I went with it."[18] He calls it "a smaller, more personal novel than I've written in the past."[33] The book was released on June 12, 2007, which was declared 'Michael Tolliver Day' by the mayor of San Francisco.[35][36]

Mary Ann in Autumn was published November 12, 2010 by Harper/HarperCollins, continuing the series. It was reviewed by Joseph Salvatore in the New York Times Sunday Book Reviews on November 14.[37] It was followed in January 2014 by The Days of Anna Madrigal, which Maupin said would be the final novel in the series.[38]

Personal life

Maupin said he knew he was gay since childhood,[11][10] but did not have sex until he was 25 and decided to come out in 1974.[8][39][40][18]

Maupin married Christopher Turner, a website producer and photographer, after seeing Turner on a dating website.[26][41] Maupin and Turner were married in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 18, 2007.[19]

Maupin's former partner of 12 years, Terry Anderson, was once a gay rights activist,[42][43] who co-authored the screenplay for The Night Listener. He lived with Maupin in San Francisco and New Zealand.[44]

Christopher Isherwood was a mentor, friend, and influence as a writer.[45][46]

Maupin is the cousin of English singer Sarah Jane Morris.[11][47]

He is an atheist.[48]

Maupin has recorded his writings as audiobooks.[49]

In 2012, Maupin purchased the home of shoe designers Lynne and Dennis Comeau in Tesuque, New Mexico.[50]

Maupin's life and work are the subject of the documentary The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.[51]

Bibliography

Tales of the City

Other novels

Memoir

Compilations

Awards

References

Шаблон:Reflist

Further reading

Шаблон:Refbegin

  • Gale, Patrick. Armistead Maupin. Bath, Somerset, England: Absolute Press, 1999. Шаблон:ISBN

Шаблон:Refend

External links

Шаблон:Commons category Шаблон:Wikiquote

Шаблон:Armistead Maupin

Шаблон:Authority control

Партнерские ресурсы
Криптовалюты
Магазины
Хостинг
Разное

  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr., birth date 13 May 1944, Age 24, Military Date 5 May 1969 U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Reserve Officers, published January 1970, record held in United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.
  3. ↑ Pronounced "Mawpin' as read in English, rather than rhyming with the French "Gauguin." "Armistead Maupin" is an anagram of 'Is a Man I Dreamt Up.' (Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up Шаблон:Webarchive was the title of a 1990 BBC documentary on him.) However, neither the name nor Maupin himself were actually invented. He recalls: "One person even wrote: 'I know for a fact that you don't exist. You're really a lesbian collective in Marin County.' (Sometimes I feel like a lesbian collective in Marin County, but I'm not.)" See: Шаблон:Cite web.
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  8. ↑ 8,0 8,1 8,2 Шаблон:Cite web – in The Independent of Raleigh, North Carolina, June 1988 – autobiographical memoir
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  10. ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 A Conversation with Author Armistead Maupin Шаблон:Webarchive – on KUOW-FM radio, 2007-06-19
  11. ↑ 11,0 11,1 11,2 11,3 11,4 Шаблон:Cite interview
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web – in Guest Informant, 1998–1999. Maupin recalls his first experiences of San Francisco.
  14. ↑ He said he had "no sense of it being a gay mecca" and called it "this amazing city that embraced me, that had made me aware of my true self", and "what really floored me was that the straight folks in San Francisco were so civilised about homosexuality." (in the New York Times interview)
  15. ↑ 15,0 15,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  17. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  18. ↑ 18,0 18,1 18,2 Шаблон:Cite magazine
  19. ↑ 19,0 19,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  20. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  21. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web TV Guide, January 1994. Article by Maupin about the difficult process of getting the Tales series into TV production.
  22. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  23. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  24. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web – San Francisco Focus Magazine], October 1992. Interview with Maupin about his friendship with Tamara De Treaux.
  25. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  26. ↑ 26,0 26,1 26,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  27. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  28. ↑ Audio interview about The Night Listener Шаблон:Webarchive – on WHYY-FM, October 3, 2000
  29. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web – a story featuring the fictional characters in Noone at Night
  30. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  31. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  32. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  33. ↑ 33,0 33,1 "Armistead Maupin talks!" Шаблон:Webarchive – Advocate.com
  34. ↑ "Sex and the city"Шаблон:Dead link – Interview in The Observer
  35. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newsШаблон:Dead linkШаблон:Cbignore
  36. ↑ "Reader, he married him"Шаблон:Dead link – Review in The Guardian
  37. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  38. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  39. ↑ For Armistead Maupin, There Are Still Tales to Tell – Interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He agreed to be identified as a homosexual in a "Ten Most Eligible Bachelors" article in San Francisco magazine.
  40. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web – Michael Tolliver's coming out letter, a response in the book to his parents' participation in Anita Bryant's anti-gay Save Our Children campaign. Maupin used the letter to serve the same purpose for his own parents, who followed the Tales serial.
  41. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  42. ↑ Remarks for the Closing Ceremonies Шаблон:Webarchive of the Gay Games IV, Yankee Stadium, June 25, 1994. On gaygames.org.
  43. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web at the National AIDS Memorial Grove, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
  44. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  45. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web – Armistead Maupin interviews Christopher Isherwood for The Village Voice, Volume 30, Number 16
  46. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  47. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  48. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  49. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  50. ↑ "Santa Fe New Mexican", October 14, 2012
  51. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  52. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  53. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  54. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  55. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
Источник — http://wikihandbk.com/ruwiki/index.php?title=Английская_Википедия:Armistead_Maupin&oldid=13247913