Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin is an American author of fiction. He has been interested in storytelling since he was a young child and ended up following his dreams. Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944. He grew up as a child in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and he wrote for the paper there, The Daily Tar Heel. From there, he serviced in the Mediterranean as a naval officer and in Vietnam as part of the River Patrol Force.