Haunting true story of deception becomes a film

By Thomas Fudge / Science and Technology Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published August 6, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

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Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener, speaks about the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax, in which he and others were tricked into believing the writings of a young man dying of AIDS.

Haunting true story of deception becomes a film

Host Tom Fudge talks with author Armistead Maupin about the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax, in which Maupin, and many others, were tricked into believing the writings of a young Anthony Johnson who was dying of AIDS. Maupin used this experience as the basis of a novel called The Night Listener, which has been turned into a film that opened this past weekend.

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Armistead Maupin , author of numerous books, including The Night Listener, which has just been made into a film. Maupin co-wrote the screenplay.