Crescent Dragonwagon

Crescent Dragonwagon (née Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a writer in six different genres, and a workshop leader. She leads Fearless Writing, which helps many people find their inner writer. She has written fifty traditionally published books, including two novels, seven cookbooks / culinary memoirs, more than twenty children's books, a biography, and a collection of poetry. In addition, she has written for magazines ranging from New York Times Book Review to Lear's, Cosmopolitan, McCall's, and Horn Book.[1]

BornEllen Zolotow
(1952-11-25) November 25, 1952
New York City, New York, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction/Nonfiction
RelativesCharlotte Zolotow (mother)
Maurice Zolotow (father)

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.[2] After Shank's death in 2000,[3] Dragonwagon moved to her family's summer home in Vermont.

Since the 2014 death of her subsequent partner, filmmaker-activist David R. Koff,[4] with whom she lived in Vermont for a decade, she has divided her time between New York, Vermont, and Arkansas.

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte Zolotow and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow.[5] She serves as literary executor to both her parents.

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 Book Award, as well as a Reading Rainbow Selection.

In 1993, Dragonwagon won the Name of the Year award.[6] In 2010, the Dragonwagon Regional was named after her.[7]

In 2003, Dragonwagon's cookbook Passionate Vegetarian won the James Beard book award in the category "Vegetarian/Healthy Focus".[8]

Books

Biography
  • Stevie Wonder. 1977. 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 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)
gollark: _should probably grab loads of the new holidays_
gollark: Wow. A *chicken* asking for a pumpkin!
gollark: Funny lineage: https://dragcave.net/lineage/ybckw
gollark: Got the spritersalty one!
gollark: Oh.

See also

References
  1. Crescent Dragonwagon (November 26, 2012). "Over and Over". The Horn Book.
  2. "Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  3. 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.
  4. Campbell, Duncan (March 13, 2014). "David Koff obituary" – via www.theguardian.com.
  5. 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.
  6. "Names of the Year".
  7. "2010 NOTY: Dragonwagon Regional, Part 1".
  8. "James Beard Foundation Awards Search".
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