Crescent Dragonwagon
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Crescent Dragonwagon (born as Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is the author of more than 40 published children's books (including a Half a Moon and One Whole Star, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner and a Reading Rainbow selection. She also has written two novels (one,The Year It Rained, is a New York Times Notable Book), several cookbooks (Passionate Vegetarian is a 2003 James Beard Award-winner), and one book of poetry. Her most recent cookbook, The Cornbread Gospels, was named one of the ten best cookbooks published in 2007 by ABC's Good Morning America.
She and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where she lived for more than 30 years. She later co-founded the non-profit Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow. She now lives in southeastern Vermont, not far from the village of Saxtons River. Her partner, filmmaker David Koff, divides his time between Vermont and Los Angeles.
She is the daughter of two noted writers: Children's book writer and editor/publisher Charlotte Zolotow and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Cookbooks
- The Commune Cookbook (1972) ISBN 0-671-21152-8
- The Bean Book (1972) ISBN 0-911104-16-X
- Dairy Hollow House Cookbook (1986) ISBN 0-02-533440-9
- Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook (1992) ISBN 0-89480-751-X, nominated for both the James Beard and IACP Awards
- Passionate Vegetarian (2002) ISBN 0-7611-2825-5, Winner, James Beard Award
- The Cornbread Gospels (2007) ISBN 0-7611-1916-7
[edit] Children's books
- When Light Turns into Night (1975) ISBN 0-06-021740-5
- Will It Be Okay? (1977) ISBN 0-06-021738-3
- 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
- This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned (1989) ISBN 0-689-82353-3
- 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 (2002)
- Sack of Potatoes (2002)
[edit] Novels
- The Year It Rained (1985) ISBN 0-02-733110-5
- To Take A Dare (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel)
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