Crescent Dragonwagon
Crescent Dragon Wagon, actually Ellen Zolotow ( born November 25, 1952 in New York City, USA) is an American writer. She is best known as the author of cooking and children's books.
Life and work
Crescent Dragon Wagon was the daughter of the famous writer Maurice Zolotow Charlotte Zolotow and. She dropped out of school and left already at sixteen her parents' home. She married her then boyfriend in 1970 and lived long in a hippie commune. The divorce of her boyfriend was in 1975. Then she came to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where she had long worked as a cook in restaurants. Later she founded with her married since 1978, the second man, the preservationists and essayist Ned Shank, one of the first Country Inns in Arkansas, where they often even stood behind the stove. She cooked there for Bill Clinton and Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Her husband died in 2000 in a car accident, since then she has lived in Westminster West, Vermont, together with her partner, filmmaker David Koff. Her brother is the well-known poker player Steve Zolotow.
As an author she first appeared in the early 1970s produced, especially cookbooks. In their works they preach the vegan food as a way to a better self and healthier life. Your children's books are inspired by her mother Charlotte Zolotow, but show quite a lot of their own accents. The influence of their parents on their work is unmistakable. In addition, she has also written novels and a book of poetry. Overall, she has published some 50 books.
Work (selection)
- Message from the advocadoes, 1982 Poetry.
- To take a dare, 1984, Roman.
- Winter holding spring 1990, children's book.
- Is this a sack of potatoes, 2002, children's book.
- Passionate Vegetarian, 2002 cookbook.
- And then it rained, 2003 children's book.
- Bean by Bean, 2012 cookbook.
Swell
- Www. dragonwaggon.com
- Www. encyclopediaofarkansas.net / encyclopedia / enty -detail.
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- Born in 1952
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