Michael Tolliver Lives LPInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best selling San Francisco saga. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all too human hero Michael Tolliver the fifty five year old sweet spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers