- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Armistead Maupin Interview, July 5, 2009
- Creator:
- Maupin, Armistead
- Contributor to Resource:
- Silha, Stephen
- Publisher:
- Big Joy Collection
- Date of Original:
- 2009-07-05
2010/2019 - Subject:
- Gay authors
Poets, American
Counterculture
Gay men
Broughton, James, 1913-1999 - Location:
- United States, California, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, 37.77493, -122.41942
United States, California, Placer County, 39.06343, -120.71766 - Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Armistead Maupin discusses his friendship with James Broughton and Joel Singer. He discusses how he was inspired by Broughton, and the way that Broughton embodied the sexual and spiritual freedoms that were part of the zeitgeist in the 1960s and 1970s. Maupin discusses Broughton's poetry and his own appreciation for it. Maupin also describes the atmosphere in San Francisco in the 1970s, when he and Broughton first met, and how he, Broughton, and other artists fit into that atmosphere.
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. - Local Identifier:
- W146_MaupinA_20090705
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/5
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Extent:
- 00:28:14
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
