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. Biography 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 Writer's 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. After Shank's death in 2000, Dragonwagon moved to her family's summer home in Vermont. Dragonwagon has been a vegetarian since the age of 22. In 2002, she authored a vegetarian cookbook, Passionate Vegetarian. Since the 2014 death of her subsequent partner, filmmaker-activist David R. Koff, with whom she lived in Vermont for a decade, she has divided her time among New York, Vermont, and Arkansas. Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow. She serves as literary executor to both her parents. Awards 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. In 1993, Dragonwagon won the Name of the Year award. In 2010, the Dragonwagon Regional was named after her. In 2003, Dragonwagon's cookbook Passionate Vegetarian won the James Beard book award in the category "Vegetarian/Healthy Focus". Books Biography Cookbooks Dairy Hollow House Cookbook, 1992 , nominated for both the James Beard and IACP Awards Passionate Vegetarian (2002), Winner, James Beard Award The Cornbread Gospels (2007) Bean by Bean: A Cookbook (2011) Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time: Canning, Preserving & Pickling for Those New to the Art or Not (1973) 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) Wind Rose (1976) (with Ronald Himler) Will It Be Okay? (1977) Your Owl Friend (1977) , picture book illus. Ruth Lercher Bornstein If You Call My Name (1981) , picture book illus. David Palladini "Katie in the