Contra Cost Times/MercuryNews.com- 08/05/07 - read full article here

For this year, Litquake introduces the Barbary Coast Award and plops it on the deserving head of San Francisco author Armistead Maupin, whose famed “Tales of the City” written between 1978 and 1989, were, so they say, responsible for “putting San Francisco on the modern day literary map.”