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| birth_place = New York City, US| death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author| language = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Cookbooks Children’s literature| subject = | movement = | notableworks = Ned Shank (1978–2000, until his death)REX NELSON: Dragonwagon cooksHTTPS://WWW.UAPRESS.COM/ANNOUNCING-THE-FORTHCOMING-PUBLICATION-OF-THE-30TH-ANNIVERSARY-EDITION-OF-DAIRY-HOLLOW-HOUSE-SOUP-BREAD/ DATE=JULY 18, 2022, The University of Arkansas Press, Mark Parsons (1970–1975) David R. Koff (until his death in 2014)HTTPS://WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM/FILM/2014/MAR/13/DAVID-KOFFFIRST=DUNCANAUTHOR-LINK=DUNCAN CAMPBELL (JOURNALIST, BORN 1944)NEWSPAPER=THE GUARDIAN, | children = | relatives = Charlotte Zolotow (mother)Maurice Zolotow (father)| awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | module =| website = | portaldisp = }}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.WEB,www.hbook.com/2012/11/authors-illustrators/over-and-over/, Over and Over, Crescent, Dragonwagon, November 26, 2012, The Horn Book, Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/books/charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0, Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children’s Real Issues, Dies at 98, 2013-11-23, Fox, Margalit, Margalit Fox, 2013-11-19, The New York Times, Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.Krasner, Deborah. (2004). Wholesome Menus From the Passionate Vegetarian. Vegetarian Times . Issue 318. pp. 45–46.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.WEB,encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/crescent-dragonwagon-2969/, Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–), Encyclopedia of Arkansas,

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.{| class=“wikitable“|+ ! Year !! Awards and nominations !! BookWon: (James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s>James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy Focus) Passionate Vegetarian (2002)WEB,www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=Crescent+Dragonwagon, James Beard Awards: Cresent Dragonwagon, December 12, 2023, James Beard Foundation Award, Nominated: (James Beard Foundation Award: 1990s>James Beard Foundation Award: Americana) The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992)

Books

Biography

• BOOK, Stevie Wonder, 1977, 0-8256-3908-5, Dragonwagon, Crescent,

Cookbooks

• BOOK, 1972, The Commune Cookbook, Simon & Schuster, 0-671-21152-8,
• BOOK, 1972, The Bean Book, Workman Pub., 0-911104-16-X,
• 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)
• BOOK, Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook, 1992, 0-89480-751-X, registration,archive.org/details/dairyhollowhouse0000drag, , Nominee, 1993 James Beard Awards, Americana.James Beard Foundation Awards: Crescent Dragonwagon
• Passionate Vegetarian (2002), Winner, (James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s2003 awards|2003 James Beard Award, Vegetarian/Healthy Focus)
• 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), {{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)

References

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External links

• {{official website |www.dragonwagon.com/ }}
• Official Biography
• Crescent Dragonwagon at Library of Congress Authorities — with 40 catalog records

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