Fiona Maazel

Who is Fiona Maazel?

Fiona Maazel is the author of two novels: Last Last Chance and Woke Up Lonely. 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. The New York Times said of the book:

Maazel's work has appeared in publications including 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.

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 teaches at New York University, Brooklyn College, Princeton, and Columbia.

Her father is conductor Lorin Maazel. Her mother is Israela Margalit, a pianist and script writer.

Maazel lives in Brooklyn.