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.
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Early life
Her father was conductor Lorin Maazel. Her mother is Israela Margalit, a pianist and scriptwriter.
Career
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."
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, and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, NYU, and Syracuse University.
She is also the Director of Communications for Measures for Justice.
Personal life
Maazel lives in Brooklyn.
Works
Last Last Chance New York : Picador/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, ISBN 9780312428310, OCLC 243544116
Woke Up Lonely Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2014. ISBN 9781555976729, OCLC 914561269
A Little More Human Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017, ISBN 9781555977696, OCLC 946693815