Crescent Dragonwagon

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.^[5]

Born	Ellen Zolotow (1952-11-25) November 25, 1952 (age 72) New York City, US
Occupation	Author
Genre	Cookbooks Children's literature
Spouse	Mark Graff (2019–present)[1][2] Ned Shank (1978–2000, until his death)[3][1][2] Mark Parsons (1970–1975)[3][1]
Partner	David R. Koff (until his death in 2014)[4]
Relatives	Charlotte Zolotow (mother) Maurice Zolotow (father) Steve Zolotow (brother)

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow and sister of professional poker player Steve Zolotow.^[6] Although many of her cookbooks include non-vegetarian recipes, she has been a vegetarian since the age of 22.^[7]

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.^[3]

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.

Year	Awards and nominations	Book
2003	Won: James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian/Healthy Focus	Passionate Vegetarian (2002)[8]
1993	Nominated: James Beard Foundation Award: Americana	The Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992)[8]

Books

Biography

• Dragonwagon, Crescent (1977). Stevie Wonder. Flash Books. ISBN 0-8256-3908-5.

Cookbooks

• The Commune Cookbook. Simon & Schuster. 1972. ISBN 0-671-21152-8.
• The Bean Book. Workman Pub. 1972. ISBN 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)
• Dragonwagon, Crescent (1992). Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook. Workman. ISBN 0-89480-751-X., Nominee, 1993 James Beard Awards, Americana.^[9]
• Passionate Vegetarian (2002), Winner, 2003 James Beard Award, Vegetarian/Healthy Focus^[9]
• 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)