Lannan Foundation

Rick Moody, Writer - Marfa, Winter 2003

Rick Moody is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation.  His first novel, Garden State (1992), won the Pushcart Press Editor’s Choice Award. Two years later, he published The Ice Storm, which became an award-winning film directed by Ang Lee.

His other work includes the novel Purple America (1997); the story collections The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven (1995) and Demonology (2001); an anthology of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (co-edited with Darcey Steinke, 1999); and the memoir The Black Veil (2002). 

Moody lives in Fishers Island, NY.