Award-winning Newsday reporter Mike McGrady passed away on Sunday at 78. He was best known as the architect of a literary hoax, the 1969 collaborative novel, Naked Came the Stranger, which spent many weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
“As one of Newsday’s truly outstanding literary talents, you are hereby officially invited to become the co-author of a best-selling novel… There will be an unremitting emphasis on sex. Also, true excellence in writing will be quickly blue-penciled into oblivion.”
