Robert Ferro
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.
Biography
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 at his father's home in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, age 46.[2][4] 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.
Themes
Robert Ferro's works are especially interested in the phenomena of homosexual integration into the traditional family. Love of family is a theme that appears in both The Family of Max Desir, and Second Son and reflects his traditional Italo-American sentiments. [5]
Books
- The Others. Scribner. 1977. ISBN 0-684-15137-5.
- The Family of Max Desir. Dutton. 1983. ISBN 0-525-24197-3.
- The Blue Star. Plume. 1985. ISBN 0-452-25819-7.
- Second Son. Crown. 1988. ISBN 0-517-56815-2.
References
- ^ The violet quill reader : the emergence of gay writing after Stonewall. New York: St. Martin's. 1994. ISBN 0-312-11091-X.
- ^ a b "Robert Ferro, 46, Dies". The New York Times. 1988-07-12. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
- ^ Consoli, Joseph P. (2002). "Ferro, Robert (1941-1988)". glbtq.com. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
- ^ Sun Sentinel, July 13, 1988
- ^ Consoli, Joseph P. "GLBTQ". Ferro, Robert (1941-1988). Retrieved February 27, 2012.
Further reading
Archival sources
- Robert Ferro papers, 1963-1988 (8.5 linear feet) are housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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