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Rick Moody (Hiram Frederick Moody III) was born on 18 October, 1961 in New York City, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Rick Moody's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Hiram Frederick Moody III
Occupation Novelist short story writer essayist composer professor
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 18 October, 1961
Birthday 18 October
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1680

The Moody family were resident in Maine for generations from around 1680; Moody's father was born there, but his parents subsequently lived at Winchester, Massachusetts.

Moody grew up in several Connecticut suburbs, including Darien and New Canaan, where he later set stories and novels.

He graduated from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and Brown University.

1961

Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film The Ice Storm.

Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike.

Moody was born in New York City to banker and investment strategist Hiram Frederick Moody, Jr., and Margaret Maureen, daughter of Francis Marion Flynn, president and publisher of The New York News.

1986

He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1986; nearly two decades later he would criticize the program in an essay in The Atlantic Monthly.

Soon after finishing his thesis, he checked himself into a mental hospital for alcoholism.

1992

Once sober and while working for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, he wrote his first novel, 1992's Garden State, about young people growing up in the industrial wasteland of northern New Jersey, where he was living at the time.

1994

Moody's second novel, 1994's The Ice Storm, was his critically praised breakthrough.

Adam Begley, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called it "A bitter and loving and damning tribute to the American family... This is a good book, packed with keen observation and sympathy for human failure".

1997

In his introduction to the 1997 reprint of the novel, he called it the most "naked" thing he has written.

His third novel, 1997's Purple America also received praise.

Occurring over a single weekend, the story of Hex Radcliffe's visit to suburban Connecticut was described by the New York Times as "breathtaking...The novel is wonderfully convincing about the contrary, almost arbitrary shifts that seem to lie at the heart of human feeling."

Moody composed the song "Free What's-his-name," performed by Fly Ashtray on their 1997 EP Flummoxed, collaborated with One Ring Zero on the EP Rick Moody and One Ring Zero in 2004, and also contributed lyrics to One Ring Zero's albums As Smart As We Are, Memorandum, and Planets.

1999

In 1999 The New Yorker chose him as one of America's most talented young writers, placing him on their "20 Writers for the 21st Century" list.

Of the novel The Ice Storm (later produced as the movie starring Sigourney Weaver), Hungry Mind Review commented that it “works on so many levels, and is so smartly written, that it should establish Rick Moody as one of his generation's bellwether voices." The London Sunday Times wrote "This is a blackly funny, beautifully written novel.

It is also remarkably mature, containing far more insights about family life and far more wisdom than any 29-year-old author should reasonably possess."

2001

2001's Demonology, a short story collection, received particular attention for its title story, of which Nicci Gerrard wrote: "It is about the death of a sister, whose life he offers to us in snapshots: her childhood, her motherhood, her sudden death. 'I should have a better ending,' he says. 'I shouldn't say her life was short and often sad, I shouldn't say she had her demons, as I do too...' It is tempting to think of this beautiful and melancholy coda to Rick Moody's stories as the appearance of the author, stepping out of the shadows at last, particularly since the first story in the collection is also, though much more obliquely, about the death of a beloved sister."

In 2001, Rick Moody co-founded the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award with Ethan Hawke, Hannah McFarland, and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

Moody is a co-host, along with One Ring Zero's Michael Hearst, for the 18:59 Podcast series.

He lives in Brooklyn and Dutchess County, and he is married to the visual artist Laurel Nakadate.

Garden State won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award.

Moody has since received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conjunctions, Harper's, Details, The New York Times, and Grand Street.

Literary critics have praised Moody's writing.

2002

Moody's memoir The Black Veil (2002) won the NAMI/Ken Book Award and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.

2005

The Diviners was released in 2005.

Little, Brown and Company, the publisher of The Diviners, changed the cover after the galleys came out because women reacted negatively to it.

The original cover showed a Conan The Barbarian-type image in technicolor orange; the new cover uses that same image, but frames it as a scene on a movie screen.

2006

In 2006, an essay by Moody was included in Sufjan Stevens's box-set Songs for Christmas.

2007

The Diviners was followed in 2007 by Right Livelihoods, a collection of three novellas published in Britain and Ireland as The Omega Force.

in 2007, when asked by the New York Times Book Review what he thought was the best book of American fiction from 1975 to 2000, Moody chose Grace Paley's The Collected Stories.

2010

The Four Fingers of Death was released July 28, 2010 by Little, Brown and Company.

2012

In 2012, he won Italy's Fernanda Pivano Award.

2013

In 2013, he published the first interview with David Bowie after the release of The Next Day. In 2016, he co-wrote three songs with Tanya Donnely on her new Swan Song Series album.

2015

2015's Hotels of North America, his most recent novel, was named a best book of the year by NPR and the Washington Post.

2019

His second memoir, The Long Accomplishment was published in 2019.

In addition to his fiction, Moody is a musician and composer.

He belongs to a group called the Wingdale Community Singers, which he describes as performing "woebegone and slightly modernist folk music, of the very antique variety."