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| spouse = Mark Graff (2019-present)<ref name=cooks/><ref name=announce/><br>[[Ned Shank]] (1978-2000, until his death)<ref name=EA/><ref name=cooks>[https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/18/dragonwagon-cooks/ REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooks]</ref><ref name=announce>[https://www.uapress.com/announcing-the-forthcoming-publication-of-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-dairy-hollow-house-soup-bread/ Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread]</ref><br>Mark Parsons (1970-1975)<ref name=EA/><ref name=cooks/><br>
| spouse = Mark Graff (2019–present)<ref name=cooks/><ref name=announce/><br>[[Ned Shank]] (1978–2000, until his death)<ref name=EA/><ref name=cooks>[https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/18/dragonwagon-cooks/ REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooks]</ref><ref name=announce>{{cite web|url=https://www.uapress.com/announcing-the-forthcoming-publication-of-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-dairy-hollow-house-soup-bread/ |title=Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread|date=July 18, 2022|publisher=The University of Arkansas Press}}</ref><br>Mark Parsons (1970–1975)<ref name=EA/><ref name=cooks/><br>
| partner = [[David R. Koff]] (until his death in 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/13/david-koff|title=David Koff obituary|first=Duncan|last=Campbell|date=March 13, 2014|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
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'''Crescent Dragonwagon''' ([[née]] '''Ellen Zolotow''', November 25, 1952, [[New York City]]) is a multigenre writer. She has written fifty books, including two novels, seven [[cookbook]]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]]'', ''[[Lear's]]'', ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[McCall's]]'', and ''[[The Horn Book Magazine|The Horn Book]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.hbook.com/2012/11/authors-illustrators/over-and-over/| title=Over and Over| first=Crescent |last=Dragonwagon| date=November 26, 2012| website=The Horn Book}}</ref>
'''Crescent Dragonwagon''' ([[née]] '''Ellen Zolotow''', November 25, 1952, [[New York City]]) is a multigenre writer. She has written fifty books, including two novels, seven [[cookbook]]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]]'', ''[[Lear's]]'', ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[McCall's]]'', and ''[[The Horn Book Magazine|The Horn Book]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.hbook.com/2012/11/authors-illustrators/over-and-over/| title=Over and Over| first=Crescent |last=Dragonwagon| date=November 26, 2012| website=The Horn Book}}</ref>


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Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers [[Charlotte Zolotow|Charlotte]] and [[Maurice Zolotow]] and sister of professional poker player [[Steve Zolotow]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/books/charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0 |title=Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children's Real Issues, Dies at 98 |access-date=2013-11-23 |last= Fox |first= Margalit |author-link=Margalit Fox|date= 2013-11-19|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] since the age of 22.<ref>Krasner, Deborah. (2004). ''Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian''. ''[[Vegetarian Times]]'' . Issue 318. pp. 45–46.</ref>
==Early life==
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Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers [[Charlotte Zolotow|Charlotte]] and [[Maurice Zolotow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/books/charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0 |title=Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children's Real Issues, Dies at 98 |access-date=2013-11-23 |last= Fox |first= Margalit |date= 2013-11-19|work=The New York Times}}</ref>


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Dragonwagon and her late husband, [[Ned Shank]], owned [[Dairy Hollow House]], a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of [[Eureka Springs, Arkansas]]. Dragonwagon later co-founded the non-profit Writers' 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.<ref name=EA>{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/crescent-dragonwagon-2969/|title=Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref>
Dragonwagon has been a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] since the age of 22.<ref>Krasner, Deborah. (2004). ''Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian''. ''[[Vegetarian Times]]'' . Issue 318. pp. 45-46</ref>


==Awards and nominations==
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Dragonwagon and her late husband, [[Ned Shank]], owned [[Dairy Hollow House]], 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.<ref name=EA>{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/crescent-dragonwagon-2969/|title=Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref>
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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 [[Coretta Scott King Award]], as well as a [[Reading Rainbow]] Selection. In 1991, she won Arkansas' [[Porter Prize]].

==Awards==
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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 [[Coretta Scott King Award]], as well as a [[Reading Rainbow]] Selection. In 1991 she won Arkansas' [[Porter Prize]].


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| 2003 ||[[James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s|James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy Focus]] ||''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002)<ref name=jba>{{cite web
| 2003 ||'''Won:''' [[James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s|James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy Focus]] ||''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002)<ref name=jba>{{cite web
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|url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=Crescent+Dragonwagon
|title=James Beard Awards: Cresent Dragonwagon
|title=James Beard Awards: Cresent Dragonwagon
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| 1993 ||''Nominated:'' [[James Beard Foundation Award: 1990s|James Beard Foundation Award: Americana]] ||''The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook'' (1992)<ref name=jba/>
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===Biography===
===Biography===


*{{cite book|title=Stevie Wonder |year=1977 |isbn= 0-8256-3908-5|last1=Dragonwagon |first1=Crescent }}
*{{cite book|title=Stevie Wonder |year=1977 |isbn= 0-8256-3908-5|last1=Dragonwagon |first1=Crescent |publisher=Flash Books }}


===Cookbooks===
===Cookbooks===
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* ''Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time: Canning, Preserving & Pickling for Those New to the Art or Not'' (1973)
* ''Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time: Canning, Preserving & Pickling for Those New to the Art or Not'' (1973)
*''The Dairy Hollow House Cookbook'' (1986)
*''The Dairy Hollow House Cookbook'' (1986)
*{{cite book|title=Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook |year=1992 |isbn=0-89480-751-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dairyhollowhouse0000drag |first=}}, Nominee, 1993 James Beard Awards, Americana.<ref name=jb>[https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=Crescent+Dragonwagon James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon]</ref>
*{{cite book|title=Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook |year=1992 |isbn=0-89480-751-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dairyhollowhouse0000drag |last1=Dragonwagon |first1=Crescent |publisher=Workman }}, Nominee, 1993 James Beard Awards, Americana.<ref name=jb>[https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=Crescent+Dragonwagon James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon]</ref>
*''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002), Winner, [[James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s#2003 awards|2003 James Beard Award, Vegetarian/Healthy Focus]]<ref name=jb/>
*''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002), Winner, [[James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s#2003 awards|2003 James Beard Award, Vegetarian/Healthy Focus]]<ref name=jb/>
*''The Cornbread Gospels'' (2007)
*''The Cornbread Gospels'' (2007)
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===Children's books===
===Children's books===
* ''Rainy Day Together'' ([[Harper & Row]], 1971), as by Ellen Parsons, children's [[picture book]] illustrated by [[Lillian Hoban]]<!--http://lccn.loc.gov/72135781 ; Ext link identifies Parsons as Zolotow/Dragonwagon -->
* ''Rainy Day Together'' ([[Harper & Row]], 1971), as by Ellen Parsons, children's [[picture book]] illustrated by [[Lillian Hoban]]<!--http://lccn.loc.gov/72135781 ; Ext link identifies Parsons as Zolotow/Dragonwagon -->
*''When Light Turns into Night'' (1975) {{ISBN|0-06-021740-5}}
*''When Light Turns into Night'' (1975), {{ISBN|0-06-021740-5}}
*''Wind Rose'' (1976) {{ISBN|0-06-021741-3}} (with Ronald Himler)
*''Wind Rose'' (1976) {{ISBN|0-06-021741-3}} (with Ronald Himler)
*''Will It Be Okay?'' (1977) {{ISBN|0-06-021738-3}}
*''Will It Be Okay?'' (1977), {{ISBN|0-06-021738-3}}
* ''Your Owl Friend'' (1977) {{ISBN|0-06-021731-6}}, picture book illus. [[Ruth Lercher Bornstein]] <!-- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?55813 32pp; illustrator missing, presume not the writer-->
* ''Your Owl Friend'' (1977), {{ISBN|0-06-021731-6}}, picture book illus. [[Ruth Lercher Bornstein]] <!-- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?55813 32pp; illustrator missing, presume not the writer-->
* ''If You Call My Name'' (1981) {{ISBN|0-06-021744-8}}, picture book illus. [[David Palladini]] <!-- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?17783 23pp -->
* ''If You Call My Name'' (1981), {{ISBN|0-06-021744-8}}, picture book illus. [[David Palladini]] <!-- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?17783 23pp -->
* "Katie in the Morning" (1983) {{ISBN|0-06-021729-4}}, picture book illus. [[Betsy A. Day]]
* "Katie in the Morning" (1983), {{ISBN|0-06-021729-4}}, picture book illus. [[Betsy A. Day]]
*''I Hate My Brother Harry'' (1983)
*''I Hate My Brother Harry'' (1983)
*''Always, Always'' (1984) {{ISBN|0-02-733080-X}}
*''Always, Always'' (1984), {{ISBN|0-02-733080-X}}
*''Coconut'' (1984) {{ISBN|0-06-021759-6}}, picture book illus. [[Nancy Tafuri]]
*''Coconut'' (1984) {{ISBN|0-06-021759-6}}, picture book illus. [[Nancy Tafuri]]
*''Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast'' (1985) {{ISBN|0-7857-0010-2}}
*''Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast'' (1985) {{ISBN|0-7857-0010-2}}
*''[[Half a Moon and One Whole Star]]'' (1986) {{ISBN|0-689-71415-7}}, picture book illus. [[Jerry Pinkney]]
*''[[Half a Moon and One Whole Star]]'' (1986), {{ISBN|0-689-71415-7}}, picture book illus. [[Jerry Pinkney]]
*''This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned'' (1989) {{ISBN|0-689-82353-3}}
*''This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned'' (1989), {{ISBN|0-689-82353-3}}
*''[[Home Place (Dragonwagon book)|Home Place]]'' (1990) {{ISBN|978-0-027331-905}}, picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney
*''[[Home Place (Dragonwagon book)|Home Place]]'' (1990), {{ISBN|978-0-027331-905}}, picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney
*''Winter Holding Spring'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-02-733122-9}}
*''Winter Holding Spring'' (1990), {{ISBN|0-02-733122-9}}
*''Alligators and Others All Year Long'' (1993)
*''Alligators and Others All Year Long'' (1993)
*''Annie Flies the Birthday Bike'' (1993)
*''Annie Flies the Birthday Bike'' (1993)
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*''The Year It Rained'' (1985) {{ISBN|0-02-733110-5}}
*''The Year It Rained'' (1985) {{ISBN|0-02-733110-5}}
*''To Take A Dare'' (1982) (co-authored with the late [[Paul Zindel]])
*''To Take A Dare'' (1982) (co-authored with the late [[Paul Zindel]])

==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{official website |www.dragonwagon.com/ }}
* {{official website |www.dragonwagon.com/ }}
*[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/crescent-dragonwagon-2969/ Official Biography]
* [https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/crescent-dragonwagon-2969/ Official Biography]
* [http://lccn.loc.gov/n50027230 Crescent Dragonwagon] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities — with 40 catalog records
* [http://lccn.loc.gov/n50027230 Crescent Dragonwagon] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities — with 40 catalog records


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BornEllen Zolotow
(1952-11-25) November 25, 1952 (age 72)
New York City, US
OccupationAuthor
GenreCookbooks
Children's literature
SpouseMark Graff (2019–present)[1][2]
Ned Shank (1978–2000, until his death)[3][1][2]
Mark Parsons (1970–1975)[3][1]
PartnerDavid R. Koff (until his death in 2014)[4]
RelativesCharlotte Zolotow (mother)
Maurice Zolotow (father)
Steve Zolotow (brother)

Crescent Dragonwagon (née Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a multigenre writer. She has written fifty books, including two novels, seven cookbooks 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, Lear's, Cosmopolitan, McCall's, and The Horn Book.[5]

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow and sister of professional poker player Steve Zolotow.[6] Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.[7]

Dragonwagon and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Dragonwagon later co-founded the non-profit Writers' 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.[3]

Awards and nominations

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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 Coretta Scott King Award, as well as a Reading Rainbow Selection. In 1991, she won Arkansas' Porter Prize.

Year Awards and nominations Book
2003 Won: James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy Focus Passionate Vegetarian (2002)[8]
1993 Nominated: James Beard Foundation Award: Americana The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992)[8]

Books

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Biography

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  • Dragonwagon, Crescent (1977). Stevie Wonder. Flash Books. ISBN 0-8256-3908-5.

Cookbooks

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Children's books

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Novels

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References

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  1. ^ a b c REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooks
  2. ^ a b "Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread". The University of Arkansas Press. July 18, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  4. ^ Campbell, Duncan (March 13, 2014). "David Koff obituary". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Dragonwagon, Crescent (November 26, 2012). "Over and Over". The Horn Book.
  6. ^ Fox, Margalit (November 19, 2013). "Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children's Real Issues, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Krasner, Deborah. (2004). Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian. Vegetarian Times . Issue 318. pp. 45–46.
  8. ^ a b "James Beard Awards: Cresent Dragonwagon". James Beard Foundation Award. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  9. ^ a b James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon
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