Crescent Dragonwagon is an author, writer, teacher, and performer. She has written two novels, several cookbook

Cookbook

A cookbook is a kitchen reference that typically contains a collection of recipes. Modern versions may also include colorful illustrations and advice on purchasing quality ingredients or making substitutions...

s, and one book of poetry.

Dragonwagon and her late husband, Ned Shank

Ned Shank

Ned Shank was an American essayist, historic preservationist, and the author of one children's book, The Sanyasin's First Day. He was married to the writer Crescent Dragonwagon, and with her owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

, owned Dairy Hollow House

Dairy Hollow House

Dairy Hollow House was a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Once described as "A kind of Algonquin Round Table of the Ozarks" by the Washington Post, it was co-created by the writer Crescent Dragonwagon and her late husband, the historic...

, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Eureka Springs is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. Along with Berryville, it is one of the two county seats for the county. It is located in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 2,350...

. Dragonwagon later co-founded the non-profit Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow. She lives in southeastern Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

. Her partner is the filmmaker David Koff

David Koff

David Richard Koff is an award-winning maker of documentary films, social activist, writer, researcher, and editor. His interest in social and economic justice has shaped a career largely spent exploring human rights, colonialism, resistance movements, racism, labor unions, and the oppression and...

.

Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte Zolotow

Charlotte Zolotow

Charlotte Zolotow is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children ....

 and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow

Maurice Zolotow

Maurice Zolotow was a show business biographer. He wrote books and magazine articles. His articles appeared in publications including Life, Collier's Weekly, Reader's Digest, Look , Los Angeles, and many others...

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Children's books

• 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
• I Hate My Brother Harry (1983)
• "Always, Always" (1984) ISBN 0-02-733080-X
• 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)

Novels

• The Year It Rained (1985) ISBN 0-02-733110-5
• To Take A Dare (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel
  Paul Zindel
  Paul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, author, and educator.-Early years:Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel,Sr., a policeman, and Beatrice Frank, a nurse; his sister, Betty Hagen, was a year and a half older than he. Paul Zindel, Sr...
  
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Awards

In 1993, Dragonwagon won the Name of the Year award. In 2010, the Dragonwagon Regional was named after her. Dragonwagon is also rumored to be a personal chef for the Name of the Year High Committee.