Mike McGrady

|birth_place = New York City, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = Shelton, Washington, U.S. |occupation = |years_active = 1962–1990 |employer = ''Newsday'' |education = Yale University |spouse = Corinne Young |children = 3 |notable_works = ''Naked Came the Stranger'' }} Michael Robinson McGrady (October 4, 1933 – May 13, 2012) was an American journalist and author. He is perhaps best known for orchestrating the 1969 literary hoax ''Naked Came the Stranger'', a novel he wrote with a group of fellow ''Newsday'' journalists as an attempt to parody the bestsellers of the era, with the book becoming a hit in its own right. Provided by Wikipedia