Discipline: Literature

Ted Mooney

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
More: www.tedmooney-author.com
Ted Mooney is an American novelist and short story writer; He has published four novels: Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981), Traffic and Laughter (1990), Singing into the Piano (1998), and The Same River Twice (2010). 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. 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. The novel was mentioned in Larry McCaffery's list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century. 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.

Studios

Garland

Ted Mooney worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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