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| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Genre | Novel |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Fiona Maazel (born 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio) is the author of three novels: Last Last Chance, Woke Up Lonely, and A Little More Human. In 2008 she was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her father was conductor Lorin Maazel. Her mother is Israela Margalit, a pianist and scriptwriter. [1]
Maazel's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in many publications, including Harper's, The New York Times Book Review , The New York Times, Tin House , Bomb, Fence, The Mississippi Review, Conjunctions, The Common, The Yale Review, Anthem, The Village Voice , N+1, This American Life, Selected Shorts, and on Salon.com.
Woke Up Lonely is about a cult leader, his ex-wife, and the four government employees he takes hostage. Last Last Chance tells the story of Lucy Clark, a drug addict with a complicated family and a difficult life. Joshua Henkin of The New York Times said of the book: "'Last Last Chance' isn’t your average novel, thanks in no small part to Maazel's funny, lacerating prose." [2]
She is a 2008 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize for 2009, and in 2005 she was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She has been the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig, [3] and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, NYU, and Syracuse University.
She is also the Director of Communications for Measures for Justice.
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