Rick Moody Quotes


I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.


Citations

Moody, Rick. "I am Rick Moody, author of Hotels of North America, The Ice Storm, etc. AMA!" Reddit, 12 Nov. 2015.

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Rick Moody
Rick Moody
  • Born: October 18, 1961
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Composer, Professor

Hiram Frederick Moody III 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, and 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.