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19Oct
SF Legends: Amy Tan & Armistead Maupin @ Swedish American Hall
6:30 PM - 11:59 PM Swedish American Hall
Date: October 19, 2018 to October 19, 2018
Where: Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, California, United States, 94114
Phone: N/A
Event Type: Arts & Theater
Ticket Price: N/A
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Show starts at 7:00 PM.Two Bay Area literary legends (and old friends) share the stage to talk about their recent memoirs, the writing life, and whatever else suits their fancy. Bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan now brings us Where the Past Begins. And Armistead Maupin, whose series Tales of the City helped change our cultural conversation about being gay in America, has just released the paperback edition of Logical Family. $15 adv / $20 doorArmistead Maupin is author of the nine-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, and The Night Listener. He was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner. Follow him on Twitter @ArmisteadMaupin.Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game," the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club, which explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages. Tan lives in San Francisco and New York.