[1] He enrolled at Columbia University with the class of 1973 before transferring to Bennington College,[2] where he completed his bachelor's degree; he then returned to Manhattan.
[6] In a 1991 article for Associated Press, Hillel Italie wrote: Mooney's work reflects a struggle with information and disinformation, the fight to balance stories about real people against images transmitted through the media.
There's an other-wordly quality to his books, a sense of life as if it took place on the moon, where people are merely bodies drifting in space, struggling to communicate.
[7]Easy Travel to Other Planets, with its startling and now-famous opening scene describing a woman having sex with a dolphin, received glowing reviews.
"[9] In his review in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jon Saari wrote: Mooney's novel has both an immediacy and a distance that stuns the reader in the power of its lyric realism .
[11] 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 his review in The Boston Globe, Carlo Wolff called the book:a philosophical entertainment doubling as a riveting, unconventional thriller .
Ted Mooney’s fourth novel explores issues of mutability against fixity, evolution against stasis, art against artifice, and the vexing allure of an affair against the security of marriage.