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*[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 Parsons (1970-1975)[1][2]
Mark Graff (2019-present)[2][3]
Ned Shank (1978-2000, until his death)[1][2][3]
PartnerDavid R. Koff (until his death in 2014)[4]
RelativesCharlotte Zolotow (mother)
Maurice Zolotow (father)

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]

Early Life

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow.[6]

Dragonwagon has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.[7]

Career

In 2002, she authored a vegetarian cookbook, Passionate Vegetarian, which won a James Beard Foundation Award.[8]

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.[1]

Awards

In 1993, The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook, was nominated for a James Beard award, and in 2003 Passionate Vegetarian won a James Beard book award in the category "Vegetarian/Healthy Focus".[9]

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.

Books

Biography

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

Cookbooks

Children's books

Novels

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  2. ^ a b c OPINON | REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooks
  3. ^ a b Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread
  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 (2013-11-19). "Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children's Real Issues, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  7. ^ Krasner, Deborah. (2004). Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian. Vegetarian Times . Issue 318. pp. 45-46
  8. ^ "Passionate Vegetarian". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  9. ^ a b c James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon
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