Background
He was born in Cranford, New Jersey.
He was born in Cranford, New Jersey.
University of Iowa; Rutgers University.
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. He later lectured at Adelphi University.
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.
Robert Ferro"s works are especially interested in the phenomena of homosexual integration into the traditional family.
He was a member of The Violet Quill.