Armistead Maupin is the world-renowned author of the Tales of the City series of books, as well as the novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin moved to San Francisco from his native North Carolina to take a job with the Associated Press. He eventually starting writing a serialized version of Tales of the City for the Pacific Sun then took it to the San Francisco Chronicle, where it became a phenomenon. The first three books in the series were made into popular television mini-series first by Britain's Channel Four and then by the US cable station Showtime. Maupin was also the subject of a BBC documentary entitled Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamed Up. He still lives and writes in San Francisco.