Crescent dragon wagon biography examples
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A Conversation with Crescent Dragonwagon
I was nineteen years old when I moved into the Zü—it was a big, brick fortress on the outskirts of college where those of us who could no longer stomach the cafeteria food had opted to live (I never did tire of the misspelling of Pollack, as in a Polish person, for pollock on Fish Fridays in the cafeteria, but I did tire of eating steamed pollock). Every night, Sunday to Thursday, we ate dinner together, and every two weeks, I was partnered up and tasked with cooking for thirty housemates. Living in the Zü came with an inherited set of ideals, most prominently that we cook vegetarian food for communal meals; only a few of us were vegetarian, but those were the rules, written in stone. Generously, my mom mailed me a James Beard Award winning tome called The Passionate Vegetarian—as big as King James, with some 1,000 recipes in it. The cover featured the author holding a bowl of vegetables on her head, whose wide grin seemed to ext
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Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)
Crescent Dragonwagon, born Ellen Zolotow, is the author of more than fifty books in a number of genres. She was also one of the founders of Dairy Hollow House, one of the earliest bed-and-breakfast inns in Arkansas and the Ozarks. Her children’s books and her culinary writings have won many awards. She received the Porter Prize in 1991.
Ellen Zolotow was born on November 25, 1952, in New York City. Her mother, Charlotte Zolotow, was a writer of children’s books and a renowned children’s book editor at Harper Collins. Her father, Maurice Zolotow, wrote biographies of celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and Billy Wilder. Zolotow attended school in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but did not finish high school. She left home when she was sixteen years old, married Mark Parsons on March 20, 1970, and lived in two communes: the first in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, and the second a back-to
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Dragonwagon, halvmåneform 1952- (Ellen Parsons, Ellen Zolotow)
PERSONAL:
Original name Ellen Zolotow; born November 25, 1952, in New York, NY; daughter of Maurice (a writer, reporter, and biographer) and Charlotte (a publisher, children's book writer, and editor) Zolotow; married Crispin Dragonwagon (real name, Mark Parsons; an archaeologist), March 20, 1969 (divorced, August 10, 1973); married Ned Shank (an architectural marknadsföring consultant, innkeeper, writer and artist), October 20, 1978 (died, November 30, 2000). Education: Educated in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, and Stockbridge, MA. Politics: "Non-affiliated activist for environmental causes and social justice." Religion: "Spiritual, not religious." Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, reading, cooking, movies of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, antiques, historic preservation, white vatten canoeing, environmentalism, fitness, theater.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Saxtons River, VT. Agent—Edite Kroll Literary Agency, 12 Grayhurst P