Ted Mooney

Mooney died from heart disease at his home in Manhattan on March 22, 2022, at the age of 70.

The Same River Twice, published in 2010, again featured an international cast of characters involved in mysterious intrigues. In his review in The Boston Globe, Carlo Wolff called the book:

Mooney's Singing into the Piano, published in 1998, has another startling opening, with an American couple's shocking erotic behavior during a fundraiser for a Mexican presidential candidate. In the New York Times Book Review, Sarah Kerr wrote:

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. In a 1991 article for Associated Press, Hillel Italie wrote:

Traffic and Laughter, Mooney's second book, set in Los Angeles in the 1990s, received mostly good reviews. Writing in The Palm Beach Post, Peter Smith praised the novel, calling Mooney a lyrical writer, though one tempered by detachment:

Mooney received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 and was the recipient of two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants.

He worked for three years writing his first and most successful novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets, which 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 best first novel in the 1982 American Book Awards. The novel was mentioned in Larry McCaffery's list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century, where it was described as:

Edward Comstock Mooney (October 19, 1951 – March 25, 2022) was an American novelist and short story writer. He 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 also served as the senior editor of Art in America from 1977 to 2008 and taught at the Yale University Graduate School of Art.

Mooney was born on October 19, 1951, in Dallas, Texas. He enrolled at Columbia University with the class of 1973 before transferring to Bennington College, where he completed his bachelor's degree; he then returned to Manhattan.