Michael GrumleyMichael Grumley was an American artist and author. Born in Bettendorf, Iowa, he attended the University of Denver, the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He received a B.S. Degree with a major in Philosophy from the University o Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Grumley was interested in cryptozoology and was the author of a book on Bigfoot ("There are Giants in the Earth"). In the book Grumley concluded that anthropoid giants once roamed the earth, and that today there are still isolated survivors which he claimed are living in tunnels and caves.In 1970, with his partner Robert Ferro, he wrote "Atlantis" which attracted widespread attention. He wrote the column "Uptown" for the New York Native. He was a founding member of The Violet Quill, a New York writers group which included Ferro, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran and others who sought to authentic voice to gay fiction. He later documented life in Manhattan in a series of books. "Life Drawing" is his only long-form work of fiction.Grumley and Ferro are buried together under the Ferro-Grumley memorial in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, New York. Following their deaths, the Ferro-Grumley Foundation was created and endowed the annual Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction. Read More Read Less