Ted Mooney

Background

Mooney, Ted was born on October 19, 1951 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of Booth and Elizabeth (Comstock) Mooney.

Education

Student, Columbia University, 1969-1971; Bachelor, Bennington College, 1973.

Career

Mooney has also served as the senior editor of Art in America from 1977 to 2008 and currently teaches at the Yale University Graduate School of Art. the novel was mentioned in Larry McCaffery's list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century, where it was described as:

The novel also introduced the term "information sickness", which has since been used in various contexts as a symptom or result of overexposure to media. Mooney received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 and was the recipient of two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants. He lives in New York City.

Achievements

• Mooney's first and most successful novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was also a finalist for the American Book Award.

Works

• book

  • Traffic & Laughter

    (From the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, here is ...)

  • Singing Into the Piano By Mooney, Ted ( Author ) Paperback 1999
  • Easy Travel to Other Planets
  • Traffic & Laughter (Vintage Contemporaries #0000) By Mooney, Ted ( Author ) Paperback 1992
  • Easy Travel to Other Planets
  • Singing into the Piano

Membership

Fellow New York Institute for Humanities. Mem Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center.

Connections

Father:

Booth Mooney

Mother:

Elizabeth (Comstock) Mooney