Crescent Dragonwagon

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow and sister of professional poker player Steve Zolotow.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.<ref>Krasner, Deborah. (2004). Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian. Vegetarian Times . Issue 318. pp. 45–46.</ref>

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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and nominations

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	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1993	Nominated: James Beard Foundation Award: Americana	The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992)<ref name=jba/>

Books

Biography

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Cookbooks

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• 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)
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• Passionate Vegetarian (2002), Winner, 2003 James Beard Award, Vegetarian/Healthy Focus<ref name=jb/>
• The Cornbread Gospels (2007)
• Bean by Bean: A Cookbook (2011)

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), Template:ISBN
• Wind Rose (1976) Template:ISBN (with Ronald Himler)
• Will It Be Okay? (1977), Template:ISBN
• Your Owl Friend (1977), Template:ISBN, picture book illus. Ruth Lercher Bornstein
• If You Call My Name (1981), Template:ISBN, picture book illus. David Palladini
• "Katie in the Morning" (1983), Template:ISBN, picture book illus. Betsy A. Day
• I Hate My Brother Harry (1983)
• Always, Always (1984), Template:ISBN
• Coconut (1984) Template:ISBN, picture book illus. Nancy Tafuri
• Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast (1985) Template:ISBN
• Half a Moon and One Whole Star (1986), Template:ISBN, picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney
• This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned (1989), Template:ISBN
• Home Place (1990), Template:ISBN, picture book illus. Jerry Pinkney
• Winter Holding Spring (1990), Template:ISBN
• 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) Template:ISBN
• To Take A Dare (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel)

External links

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• Official Biography
• Crescent Dragonwagon at Library of Congress Authorities — with 40 catalog records