Title Profile & Character Information

Tales of the City
Annotation

For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.



Author Notes
  Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, and Maybe the Moon. In 1994 Tales of the City became a controversial but highly acclaimed miniseries on public television. More Tales of the City became a Showtime original miniseries in 1998. Maupin lives in San Francisco.

Characters
NameSingleton, Mary Ann
GenderFemale

GenreFiction
Humor
    --Comedy of manners
Adventure
Collection
TopicsFriendship
1970s culture
Bohemian lifestyle
California lifestyle
Women's lives
Moving
Life changes
SettingSan Francisco, California
California



Series
  Tales of the City
1Tales of the city
2More tales of the city
3Further tales of the city
4Babycakes
5Significant others
6Sure of you
7Michael Tolliver lives
8Mary Ann in autumn
9The Days of Anna Madrigal
10Mona of the Manor