![]() ![]() In his introduction to the 1997 reprint of the novel, he called it the most "naked" thing he has written. ![]() Once sober and while working for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, he wrote his first novel, 1992's Garden State, about young people growing up in the industrial wasteland of northern New Jersey, where he was living at the time. Soon after finishing his thesis, he checked himself into a mental hospital for alcoholism. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1986 nearly two decades later he would criticize the program in an essay in The Atlantic Monthly. Paul's School in New Hampshire and Brown University. Moody grew up in several Connecticut suburbs, including Darien and New Canaan, where he later set stories and novels. The Moody family were resident in Maine for generations from around 1680 Moody's father was born there, but his parents subsequently lived at Winchester, Massachusetts. Moody was born in New York City to banker and investment strategist Hiram Frederick Moody, Jr., and Margaret Maureen, daughter of Francis Marion Flynn, president and publisher of The New York News. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike. Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) 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. ![]()
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