Michael Grumley

{{short description|American writer}}

Michael Grumley (July 6, 1942 – April 28, 1988) was an American writer and artist.

Grumley was born in Bettendorf, Iowa. He attended the University of Denver, the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{cite web |title= Michael Grumley; Author, 46|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED61531F933A05757C0A96E948260 |date=1988-10-04 |access-date=2008-05-28|work=The New York Times}} Grumley received a B.S. Degree with a major in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1964.University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Commencement Program, June 7, 1964. See also Michael Zetteler, the Zonyx Report, www.reocities.com/enchantedforest/field/8106/TEXTS/BugHist.html

Grumley was a founding member of The Violet Quill.Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story, London:Picador, 1994 His partner, another founding member of the Quill, was Robert Ferro.{{cite web |title=Robert Ferro, 46, Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDF1F30F931A25754C0A96E948260 |date=1998-07-12 |access-date=2007-08-08 |work=The New York Times}} He wrote a regularly appearing column Uptown for the New York Native.{{cite book|last=Picano|first=Felice|title=Art and sex in Greenwich Village : gay literary life after Stonewall|year=2007|publisher=Carroll and Graf|location=New York|isbn=978-0-7867-1813-9|url=https://archive.org/details/artsexingreenwic00pica}} Grumley and Ferro are buried together under the Ferro-Grumley memorial in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, New York.

Following their deaths, the Ferro-Grumley Foundation, which manages their estate, created and endowed the annual Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction in conjunction with Publishing Triangle.