RICK MOODY: From The Ice Storm to The Long Accomplishment – A Literary Journey

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Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia universities. His first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor’s Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown and Company. Foreign editions have been published in twenty countries. (A film version, directed by Ang Lee, was released by Fox Searchlight in 1997, and won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.) In 1998, Moody received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In May of 2002, Little…