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Crescent Dragonwagon (nee Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a writer, teacher, and performer who works in the literary, culinary and dramatic arts and the author of more than fifty books.Dragonwagon's children's books include Half a Moon and One Whole Star.

She 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 thirty 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 is the filmmaker David Koff.

She is the daughter of the writers Charlotte Zolotow and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow.

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