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Tilar J. Mazzeo is an American writer of creative nonfiction. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling "oenobiography" The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It (Harper Collins 2008), which received the Gourmand Award for the Best Work of Wine Literature (United States) in 2008. Also the author of many books, articles, and essays on the wine and food of Napa and Sonoma Counties, in California, and on the history of Chanel No. 5 perfume, she is a professor at Colby College.

According to her biography, published in the paperback edition of The Widow Clicquot in 2009, Mazzeo was raised in coastal Maine and moved to Northern California in her early 20s, where she began to study wine seriously.