* 1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author

It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. ( born May 13, 1944 ) is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, set in San Francisco.

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* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.

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* The Palace appears in the first Armistead Maupin Tales of the City books and mini-series.

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

His use of the serial format, in his Edinburgh and Pimlico novels, has revived the nineteenth-century format used by authors including Charles Dickens and Armistead Maupin.

In 1993, he starred in the short-lived detective series Moon Over Miami, and also won the role of Dr. Jon Fielding in the television adaptation of Tales of the City, based on the bestselling novels by Armistead Maupin.

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Tales of the City refers to a series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin.

* Anna Madrigal, fictional character from Armistead Maupin's novel series Tales of the City

* A character named Jonah Flake appears in Armistead Maupin's Mary Ann in Autumn, a Tales of the City novel published in 2010.

This scene is featured in Michael Shaara's novel, The Killer Angels, in which Armistead is a principal character.

In Gettysburg, the film version of Shaara's novel The Killer Angels, Armistead was portrayed by actor Richard Jordan who, like Armistead, died shortly thereafter.

Armistead is a character in the alternate history novel Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen.

KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel, Tales of the City, which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994.

General Hancock, for instance, spends much of the novel dreading the day he will have to fire on his friend in the Confederate Army, Lewis " Lo " Armistead.

Armistead Maupin, who wrote a blurb for an edition of A Rock and a Hard Place, later wrote The Night Listener, a novel subsequently made into a film, in which the main character begins correspondence with an HIV-positive boy who is not what he seems.

" By some accounts Hobday copied the concept from another restaurant, Perry's, which opened several months earlier and was made famous as a singles " meet market " by Armistead Maupin's novel, Tales of the City.

It is also namechecked in the song Hanging Around by The Stranglers, as well as mentioned in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City book Babycakes.

Dr. Daniel Brinton, the chief surgeon at the Union hospital there, had expected Armistead to survive because he characterized the two bullet wounds as not of a " serious character.

They both went west when Armistead returned to duty shortly thereafter.

Following her death in 1861 the flag went to her daughter, Georgiana Armistead Appleton, and then later to her grandson, Eben Appleton.

Shortly after 2: 30 p. m. Armistead went in anyway, and though his men made some progress he failed to penetrate the strong defensive position.

The paper was founded by Lindsay C. Marshall and Armistead R. Michie as The Daily Banner, notable for being the Eastern Shore's first daily newspaper.

During this tour he recognized and embraced James Armistead Lafayette, a free negro who took his last name to honor him ; while in Yorktown, the story of the event was reported by the Richmond Enquirer.

Armistead was authorized by Washington to offer each leader $ 5, 000 to bring their followers in for transportation west, and to concede land in the south of Florida to those remaining.

During that time he appeared at several forts, presenting the pass given to him by Armistead, and demanding food and liquor.

In May 1841 Armistead was replaced by Col. William Jenkins Worth as commander of Army forces in Florida.

* Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, a digital library at the University of Illinois containing 40 years of field research among Sephardic communities in North America, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, and Israel by Professors Samuel Armistead, Joseph Silverman, and Israel Katz.

In the film, the meeting between Armistead and Bingham at the High Water Mark was altered with Lt. Thomas Chamberlain ( portrayed by C. Thomas Howell ), brother of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, taking Bingham's place.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in 2011, with a book by Jeff Whitty and the score by Jake Shears and John " JJ " Garden.

* Barbary Lane Senior Communities-retirement homes for LGBT people named after the setting of Tales ; Introduction by Armistead Maupin

Noteworthy KQED television productions include the first installment of Armistead Maupin's miniseries Tales of the City, Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs, and a series of programs focusing on the historic neighborhoods in San Francisco, such as The Castro and The Fillmore District.

It was awarded six American Library Association awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow.

Whitty is writing the libretto to an upcoming stage version of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, with music by Jake Shears and John Garden of the musical group Scissor Sisters.

An African American slave, Armistead was owned by William Armistead in Virginia during the American Revolution.

Although the Virginia Assembly passed a manumission act in 1782 allowing for the freedom of any slave by his or her owner, James remained the property of William Armistead ( A 1783 law specifically targeted at freeing slaves whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service in exchange for their liberty did not apply to James ).