American Writers’ Week: Armistead Maupin

Name: American Writers’ Week: Armistead Maupin
Start: 2026-09-29T17:15:00+00:00
Location: British Library

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Tue 29 Sept · 18:15 · £16

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Armistead Maupin is the author of the Tales of the City novels, about a ‘diverse, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be’. Most recently he published a long-awaited memoir; chronicling his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling California; from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to San Francisco in the early 1970s and from a curious youth to being a ground-breaking writer.Armistead Maupin talks to writer, columnist and creative director Jack Guinness.Part of the British Library’s American Writers’ Week (28 September – 2 November 2026), presented in association with Festival America, Vincennes, France. Participating writers include Alison Bechdel, Armistead Maupin, Daniel Kraus, Jeanine Cummins, Joyce Carol Oates, Katie Kitamura and Rabih Alameddine and Viet Thanh Nguyen.Buy tickets for two or more American Writers’ Week events and save 25% on your basket.In association with The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania.

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