Crescent Dragonwagon (née Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a multigenre writer.
[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] 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.