Crescent Dragonwagon (

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Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a multigenre writer. She has written fifty books, including two novels, seven

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s and culinary memoirs, more than twenty children's books, a biography, and a collection of poetry. In addition, she has written for magazines including '' The New York Times Book Review'', ''

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'', '' Cosmopolitan'', '' McCall's'', and ''

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''. Dragonwagon and her late husband,

Ned Shank Ned Shank (February 19, 1956 – November 30, 2000) was an American essayist, historic preservationist, and the author of one children's book, ''The Sanyasin's First Day''. He was married to the writer Crescent Dragonwagon, and with her owned ...

, owned

Dairy Hollow House Dairy Hollow House was a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Once described as "A kind of Algonquin Round Table of the Ozarks" by ''The Washington Post'', it was co-created by the writer Crescen ...

, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Dragonwagon later co-founded the non-profit Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, and was active in the cultural and literary life of Arkansas throughout the 31 years she lived in the state full-time. After Shank's death in 2000, Dragonwagon moved to her family's summer home in Vermont. Since the 2014 death of her subsequent partner, filmmaker-activist David R. Koff, with whom she lived in Vermont for a decade, she has divided her time among New York, Vermont, and Arkansas. Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and

Maurice Zolotow Maurice Zolotow (November 23, 1913 - March 14, 1991) was an American show business biographer. He wrote books and magazine articles. His articles appeared in publications including ''Life'', ''Collier's Weekly'', ''Reader's Digest'', '' Look'', '' ...

. She serves as literary executor to both her parents.

Awards

Dragonwagon's tenth children's book, '' Half a Moon and One Whole Star'', illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and published in 1986, was the winner of a

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, as well as a Reading Rainbow Selection. In 1991 she won Arkansas' Porter Prize. In 1993, Dragonwagon won the Name of the Year award. In 2010, the Dragonwagon Regional was named after her. In 2003, Dragonwagon's cookbook ''Passionate Vegetarian'' won the James Beard book award in the category "Vegetarian/Healthy Focus".

Books

Biography

Cookbooks

* * *''Dairy Hollow House Cookbook'', 1992 *, nominated for both the James Beard and IACP Awards *''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002), Winner, James Beard Award *''The Cornbread Gospels'' (2007) *''Bean by Bean: A Cookbook'' (2011) * ''Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time: Canning, Preserving & Pickling for Those New to the Art or Not'' (1973)

Children's books

* ''Rainy Day Together'' ( Harper & Row, 1971), as by Ellen Parsons, children's picture book illustrated by Lillian Hoban *''When Light Turns into Night'' (1975) *''Wind Rose'' (1976) (with Ronald Himler) *''Will It Be Okay?'' (1977) * ''Your Owl Friend'' (1977) , picture book illus.

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* ''If You Call My Name'' (1981) , picture book illus.

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* "Katie in the Morning" (1983) , picture book illus. Betsy A. Day *''I Hate My Brother Harry'' (1983) *''Always, Always'' (1984) *''Coconut'' (1984) , picture book illus.

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*''Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast'' (1985) *'' Half a Moon and One Whole Star'' (1986) , picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney *''This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned'' (1989) *'' Home Place'' (1990) , picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney *''Winter Holding Spring'' (1990) *''Alligators and Others All Year Long'' (1993) *''Annie Flies the Birthday Bike'' (1993) *''Brass Button'' (1997) *''Bat in the Dining Room'' (1997) *''And Then It Rained / And Then the Sun Came Out'' (2002) *''Sack of Potatoes'' (2002) *''All the Awake Animals Are Almost Asleep'' (2012)

Novels

*''The Year It Rained'' (1985) *''To Take A Dare'' (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel)

References

External links

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