Biography

Grumley was born in Bettendorf, Iowa

Bettendorf, Iowa

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. He attended the University of Denver

University of Denver

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, the City College of New York

City College of New York

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 and the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

  Grumley received a B.S. Degree with a major in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on June 7, 1964.

He was a member of The Violet Quill

The Violet Quill

The Violet Quill was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981 in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them...

. His partner, another member of the Quill, was Robert Ferro

Robert Ferro

Robert Ferro was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper-middle-class values.-Biography:...

. He wrote a regularly appearing column Uptown for the New York Native

New York Native

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. In 1988, the Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT fiction were created in his and Robert Ferro's honor.

Cryptozoology

Grumley was interested in cryptozoology

Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven...

, he was the author of a book on Bigfoot

Bigfoot

Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is an ape-like cryptid that purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid...

, 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

Anthropoid

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 giants once roamed the earth, and that today there are still isolated survivors which he claimed are living in underground tunnels and caves.