Armistead Maupin: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Armistead Maupin said elsewhere, not written here

The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Harry Redknapp English football player and manager

Pulling Sandra.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗

Una Stubbs British actress, television personality, and dancer

Bringing up my three sons.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2016 source ↗

Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet

The Blazing World.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

Joanna Scanlan British actress and writer

Having someone to love.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗

My friend Ian McKellen, who has an extraordinary record as an actor and a gay activist.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

As a kind man who told good stories.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

I would have come out earlier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

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