Margaret Dilloway is a Japanese American author best known for her novels How To Be An American Housewife and The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns.

Margaret Dilloway
Margaret Dilloway
Websitehttp://www.margaretdilloway.com

Biography

Margaret Dilloway was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father.[1] She grew up in San Diego and has lived in Washington, Hawaii, and San Diego, California as an adult. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, earning a Studio Art B.A.[2] She has three children.[3]

Career

How To Be An American Housewife was published by Putnam Books in 2010[4] and reprinted in paperback in 2011.[5] It received positive reviews, including four stars from People magazine.[6]

Her second novel, The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns was published by Putnam in August 2012.[7] The book won the American Library Association Reference and User Services Association 2012 award in Women's Fiction.[8]

Her third book Sisters of Heart and Snow was published in 2015 by Penguin, with narratives alternating between current-day Japanese American sisters and 12th century female samurai Tomoe Gozen .

Middle grade fantasy: MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE LOST ISLAND OF MONSTERS and MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE DREAM THIEF were published by Disney-Hyperion and then bought by Balzer + Bray, and optioned by Fox Animation for a feature film.

Middle grade contemporary, published by Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins): SUMMER OF A THOUSAND PIES, FIVE THINGS ABOUT AVA ANDREWS, and WHERE THE SKY LIVES.

In 2020, Margaret was the Zion National Park Artist-in-Residence in February, living there for a month right before the quarantine hit. There she wrote WHERE THE SKY LIVES, which takes place in Zion.

Honors and awards

  • Christopher Award, FIVE THINGS ABOUT AVA ANDREWS, 2021
  • Children's Literature Council of Southern California Excellence in a Work of Juvenile Fiction, SUMMER OF A THOUSAND PIES, 2020
  • American Library Association Asian/Pacific American Librarians Honor Award, MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE LOST ISLAND OF MONSTERS, 2017
  • American Library Association Literary Tastes Award for Best Women's Fiction, THE CARE AND HANDLING OF ROSES WITH THORNS, 2013
  • John Gardner Fiction Award Finalist, 2011[9]
  • Indie NEXT List Pick, 2010[10]

Bibliography

  • Dilloway, Margaret (2010). How to Be an American Housewife. United States: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-15637-3.
  • Dilloway, Margaret (2012). The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns. United States: Putnam. ISBN 978-0399157752.
  • Walton, Todd (2013). Spark: A Creative Anthology. United States: Empire & Great Jones Little Press. ISBN 978-0988807211. Contributing author.
  • Dilloway, Margaret (2015). Sisters of Heart and Snow. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 9780399170805.Dilloway, Margaret (2016). Momotaro: Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters. Little, Brown Readers. ISBN 978-1484746813.Dilloway, Margaret (2016). Momotaro: Xander and the Dream Thief. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1484790076.
  • "The Japanese Untouchables" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-dilloway/the-japanese-untouchables_b_697585.html
  • "My Mother and the American Way" http://www.blogher.com/my-mother-and-american-way-housekeeping.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Yamaguchi, Leslie. "How To Be An American Housewife". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Penguin Speakers Bureau. "About The Author Margaret Dilloway". Penguin Group. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
  3. ↑ "Margaret Dilloway". Huffington Post.
  4. ↑ "How To Be An American Housewife". Penguin Group.
  5. ↑ "How To Be An American Housewife - Paperback". Penguin Group.
  6. ↑ Green, Michelle. "Picks and Pans: Books". People Magazine. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  7. ↑ "The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns". Penguin Group.
  8. ↑ "BREAKING NEWS: RUSA's 2013 Reading List Announced: Librarian's top picks in adrenaline, mystery, romance, sci-fi, women's fiction and other genres". American Library Association Reference and User Services Association. Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "THE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD". Binghamton University. Binghamton Center for Writers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "The August 2011 Indie Next List Preview". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
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