Background
Grumley was born in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Grumley was born in Bettendorf, Iowa.
He attended the University of Denver, the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers" Workshop Grumley received a Bachelor of Surgery Degree with a major in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on June 7, 1964.
He wrote a regularly appearing column Uptown for the New York Native. 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. Grumley was interested in cryptozoology, he was the author of a book on Bigfoot, titled There are Giants in the Earth the book was first published in 1975 with a later edition appearing in 1976.
In the book Grumley concluded that anthropoid giants once roamed the earth, and that today there are still isolated survivors which he claimed are living in underground tunnels and caves.
He was a founding member of The Violet Quill. His partner, another founding member of the Quill, was Robert Ferro.