1. Hiram Frederick Moody III was born on October 18,1961 and 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.
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.
Rick Moody grew up in several Connecticut suburbs, including Darien and New Canaan, where he later set stories and novels.
Rick Moody graduated from St Paul's School in New Hampshire and Brown University.
Rick Moody 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.
In 2006, an essay by Rick Moody was included in Sufjan Stevens's box-set Songs for Christmas.
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, Rick Moody chose Grace Paley's The Collected Stories.
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.
Rick Moody is a co-host, along with One Ring Zero's Michael Hearst, for the 18:59 Podcast series.
Rick 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.
Rick Moody's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conjunctions, Harper's, Details, The New York Times, and Grand Street.
Indeed, Rick Moody's characters are like word-chords whose considerable tribulations and emotional woundings are never the central fact of the text, but rather convincing casings, occasions to press ink on paper.
Rick Moody has the same knockabout whimsy careering into keen lament.