Robert Ferro (born 1941 in Cranford, New Jersey - deceased in 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. He later lectured at Adelphi University.He was a member of The Violet Quill.
He died of AIDS a few months after his partner, Michael Grumley, in 1988.