Grant Michaels

{{short description|American novelist (1947–2009)}}

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| birth_date = 1947

| birth_place = Lawrence, Massachusetts

| death_date = July 2, 2009 (aged 61–62)

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| resting_place = West Roxbury, Massachusetts{{cite web |title=Michael Mesrobian death notice |url=https://www.currentobituary.com/obit/65963 |website=Current Obituary |access-date=9 November 2022}}

| occupation = Mystery writer

| language = English

| nationality = American

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| years_active = 1990s

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Michael Mesrobian (1947 – July 2, 2009),Drewey Wayne Gunn, The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. {{ISBN|9780810885882}}, pp. 158–160. better known by the pen name of Grant Michaels, was an American writer of mystery novels.[http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/19980905/news/309059930 "Gay detectives seek own niche in mystery genre"]. South Coast Today, September 5, 1998. He published six novels with St. Martin's Press in the 1990s, centering on Stan Kraychik, a gay hairdresser turned amateur detective. All six novels were shortlisted Lambda Literary Award finalists in the Gay Mystery category.Judith Markowitz, The Gay Detective Novel: Lesbian and Gay Main Characters and Themes in Mystery Fiction. McFarland & Company, 2004. {{ISBN|9780786482771}}.