BornEllen Zolotow
(1952-11-25) November 25, 1952
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)

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.[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 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.[3]

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.

YearAwards and nominationsBook
2003Won: James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy FocusPassionate Vegetarian (2002)[8]
1993Nominated: James Beard Foundation Award: AmericanaThe Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992)[8]

Books

Biography

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

Cookbooks

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

  1. 1 2 3 REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooks
  2. 1 2 Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread
  3. 1 2 3 "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 (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. 1 2 "James Beard Awards: Cresent Dragonwagon". James Beard Foundation Award. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  9. 1 2 James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon
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