Robert Ferro (October 21, 1941 - July 11, 1988) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper-middle-class values.
He was born in Cranford, New Jersey. He went to college at Rutgers University and received a Master's Degree from the University of Iowa. In the fall of 1965 Ferro met Andrew Holleran at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.[1] He later lectured at Adelphi University.[2] He was a member of The Violet Quill.[3]
He died of AIDS a few months after his partner, Michael Grumley, in 1988.[2]