"How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was."
American novelist and memoirist best known for the Tales of the City series. His writing helped define late-20th-century urban fiction with recurring themes of identity, community, and social change. He has also worked as a journalist and screenwriter.