Mike McGrady (1933–2012)

Mike McGrady was born in New York City on October 4, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1968 and studied at Harvard University as a Nieman fellow in 1969. He worked for Newsday, where he covered the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War and later became a film and show more restaurant critic. His series of columns from the front, A Dove in Vietnam, won an Overseas Press Club Award in 1967 and was published as a book. He along with 25 other Newsday journalists wrote the book Naked Came the Stranger. His other books include two as-told-to memoirs by the pornographic film actress Linda Lovelace, Ordeal and Out of Bondage, and an instructional manual, Stranger Than Naked: Or, How to Write Dirty Books for Fun and Profit. He died from pneumonia on May 13, 2012 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less