– Awards and Nominations:
– “Half a Moon and One Whole Star” won Coretta Scott King Award and was a Reading Rainbow Selection in 1986.
– Crescent Dragonwagon won the Arkansas Porter Prize in 1991.
– “Passionate Vegetarian” won the James Beard Foundation Award in 2003.
– “The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook” was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award in 1993.
– Crescent Dragonwagon was a James Beard Foundation Award nominee for Americana in 1993.
– Books:
– “Stevie Wonder” by Crescent Dragonwagon was published in 1977.
– “The Commune Cookbook” was published by Simon & Schuster in 1972.
– “The Bean Book” was published by Workman Pub in 1972.
– “Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time: Canning, Preserving & Pickling for Those New to the Art or Not” was published in 1973.
– “The Dairy Hollow House Cookbook” was published in 1986.
– Biography:
– “Stevie Wonder” by Crescent Dragonwagon was published in 1977.
– Crescent Dragonwagon was born in 1952.
– Crescent Dragonwagon contributed to the “Encyclopedia of Arkansas.”
– Crescent Dragonwagon’s obituary was published in “The Guardian” in 2014.
– An article by Crescent Dragonwagon was featured in “The Horn Book” in 2012.
– Cookbooks:
– “The Commune Cookbook” was published in 1972.
– “The Bean Book” was published in 1972.
– “The Dairy Hollow House Cookbook” was published in 1986.
– “Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook” was published in 1992.
– “Will It Be Okay?” was published in 1977.
– Contributions and Recognition:
– Crescent Dragonwagon was a nominee for the James Beard Foundation Award in 1993.
– Crescent Dragonwagon’s work was mentioned in “Vegetarian Times” in 2004.
– Crescent Dragonwagon was recognized by the James Beard Foundation Award.
– Crescent Dragonwagon authored works on vegetarianism.
– Chefs and cookbook authors like Nava Atlas and Mayim Bialik are associated with the industry.
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.
Born | Ellen Zolotow November 25, 1952 New York City, US |
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Occupation | Author |
Genre | Cookbooks Children's literature |
Spouse | Mark Graff (2019–present) Ned Shank (1978–2000, until his death) Mark Parsons (1970–1975) |
Partner | David R. Koff (until his death in 2014) |
Relatives | Charlotte Zolotow (mother) Maurice Zolotow (father) |
Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow. Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.
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.