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.
Fiona Maazel | |
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_Nina_Katchadourian.jpg) Fiona Maazel at home | |
| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Genre | Novel |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Early life
editHer father was conductor Lorin Maazel. Her mother is Israela Margalit, a pianist and scriptwriter.[1]
Career
editMaazel'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.
Personal life
editWorks
edit- 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
References
edit- ^ Morris, Steven Leigh (March 17, 2011). "Jonas Oppenheim's Free $$$ and Israela Margalit's Trio". laweekly.com/arts/jonas-oppenheims-free-and-israela-margalits-trio-2169628. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ Bad Habit – NYT, April 6, 2008
- ^ Institut fuer Amerikanistik der Uni Leipzig / American Studies Leipzig. "The Picador Guest Professorship for Literature – American Studies Leipzig". Retrieved January 10, 2016.
- ^ "What1 – Fiona Maazel STUFF". fionamaazel.com. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
External links
edit- Official website
- Fiona Maazel at Macmillan
- http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=1542
- http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/fiona-maazel/ Archived March 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- 2013 Bomb Magazine interview of Fiona Maazel by Justin Taylor Archived July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine