Crescent Dragonwagon
| Born | Ellen Zolotow November 25, 1952 New York City, US |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Fiction/Nonfiction |
| Relatives | Charlotte 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.[1]
Early Life
Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow.[2]
Dragonwagon has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.[3]
Career
In 2002, she authored a vegetarian cookbook, Passionate Vegetarian, which won a James Beard Foundation Award.[4]
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.[5] Her husband was the filmmaker-activist David R. Koff.[6][7]
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 Coretta Scott King Award, as well as a Reading Rainbow Selection. In 1991 she won Arkansas' Porter Prize.
In 2003, Dragonwagon's cookbook Passionate Vegetarian won the James Beard book award in the category "Vegetarian/Healthy Focus".[8]
Books
Biography
- Dragonwagon, Crescent (1977). Stevie Wonder. ISBN 0-8256-3908-5.
Cookbooks
- Dragonwagon, Crescent (1972). The Commune Cookbook. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-21152-8.
- Dragonwagon, Crescent (1972). The Bean Book. Workman Pub. ISBN 0-911104-16-X.
- Dairy Hollow House Cookbook, 1992
- Dragonwagon, Crescent (1992). Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook. ISBN 0-89480-751-X., 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) ISBN 0-06-021740-5
- Wind Rose (1976) ISBN 0-06-021741-3 (with Ronald Himler)
- 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
- If You Call My Name (1981) ISBN 0-06-021744-8, picture book illus. David Palladini
- "Katie in the Morning" (1983) ISBN 0-06-021729-4, picture book illus. Betsy A. Day
- I Hate My Brother Harry (1983)
- Always, Always (1984) ISBN 0-02-733080-X
- 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
- 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
- Home Place (1990) ISBN 978-0-027331-905, picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney
- Winter Holding Spring (1990) ISBN 0-02-733122-9
- 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) ISBN 0-02-733110-5
- To Take A Dare (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel)
See also
References
- ^ Dragonwagon, Crescent (November 26, 2012). "Over and Over". The Horn Book.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Krasner, Deborah. (2004). Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian. Vegetarian Times . Issue 318. pp. 45-46
- ^ "Passionate Vegetarian". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ "Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ Weintz, Steven B. (November 17, 2002). A Capital Idea: An Illustrated History of the Capital Hotel. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781557287274 – via Google Books.
- ^ Campbell, Duncan (March 13, 2014). "David Koff obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "James Beard Foundation Awards Search".
External links
- Official website
- Crescent Dragonwagon at Library of Congress Authorities — with 40 catalog records
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- 1952 births
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American children's writers
- American cookbook writers
- American food writers
- Jewish American writers
- American women children's writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- American women novelists
- James Beard Foundation Award winners
- Living people
- Novelists from Vermont
- People from Carroll County, Arkansas
- People from Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Women cookbook writers
- Women food writers
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American women
- Vegetarian cookbook writers