Armistead Maupin: The Novelist and the Newspaperbr The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West - San Francisco Public Librarybr Armistead Maupin in conversation with David Ulin. Introduction: Ralph Lewinbr br Introduced by the President and CEO of Cal Humanities Ralph Lewin, this free-wheeling conversation between Los Angeles Times book critic (and conference co-organizer) David Ulin and the writer Armistead Maupin will investigate Maupin's body of work and the general landscape of writing about, in, and on San Francisco in the last several decades.