Fiona Maazel is a writer and freelance editor. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...

, The New York Times, Tin House

Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...

, Bomb

Bomb

A bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy...

, Fence, The Mississippi Review, The Common, The Yale Review, Anthem, The Village Voice

The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...

, N+1, and on salon.com

Salon.com

Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

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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.

Maazel's first novel, Last Last Chance, was published in March 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...

. It tells the story of Lucy Clark, a drug addict with a complicated family and a difficult life. The New York Times

The New York Times

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 said of the book: "'Last Last Chance' isn't your average novel, thanks in no small part to Maazel's funny, lacerating prose."

Her father is conductor Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...

. Her mother is Israela Margalit

Israela Margalit

Israela Margalit is a critically acclaimed concert pianist, an award-winning recording artist, playwright, and television writer.She has appeared as a soloist with fifty of the world’s greatest orchestras including the American Big Five of New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Chicago, the...

, a pianist and script writer.

Maazel lives in Brooklyn and has just finished work on a new novel, Woke Up Lonely. It's about a cult leader, his ex-wife, and the four people he takes hostage. The author hopes it's funny and sad and all that good stuff.

External links

• Fiona Maazel at Amazon.com
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