Ted Mooney

Ted Mooney

About the Author

Ted Mooney (1951-2022) was an award-winning author and the senior editor of Art in America, a position he held for more than thirty years, and subsequently taught writing at Yale University. His speculative fiction novel Easy Travel to Other Planets received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was also a finalist for the National Book Award (at the time, the American Book Award).

A writer of essays and short stories for such publications as Esquire and Vogue, Mooney’s other novels include Traffic and Laughter, Singing into the Piano, and The Same River Twice.