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Crescent Dragonwagon

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– 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.

BornEllen Zolotow
(1952-11-25) November 25, 1952 (age 71)
New York City, US
OccupationAuthor
GenreCookbooks
Children's literature
SpouseMark Graff (2019–present)
Ned Shank (1978–2000, until his death)
Mark Parsons (1970–1975)
PartnerDavid R. Koff (until his death in 2014)
RelativesCharlotte 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.

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