Robert FerroRobert Ferro was born in Cranford, N.J., in 1941. He graduated from Rutgers University and earned a master's degree from the University of Iowa. In late 1965 Ferro met Andrew Holleran at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He later lectured at Adelphi Universty. With Michael Grumley, in 1970 he co-authored Atlantis: the Autobiography of a Search. It is for his fiction, and four novels, that he was most influential. The semi-autobiographical The Family of Max Desir brought him to wide notice and acclaim. He was a member of The Violet Quill, a group of influential post-Stonewall openly gay writers in New York which included Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Christopher Cox, George Whitmore, Ferro and Grumley. He died of AIDS a few months after his partner, Michael Grumley, in 1988. Read More Read Less