Bio:Crescent Dragonwagon

Born Ellen Zolotow was born in New York, and grew up in the suburb Hastings-on-Hudson. She has used the nickname "Crescent" since age 16, and legally changed her name to that later. She married Crispin Dragonwagon (an archaeologist) in 1970, divorced in 1975. (Her legal name is "Crescent Dragonwagon".) She later married Ned Shanks. They were the innkeepers of Dairy Hollow House, a country inn in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He was killed in a bicycle accident about 2005. Crescent is best known for writing a large number of cookbooks, especially vegetarian cookbooks, and children's books. She has also written under the name "Ellen Parsons".

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"Something about the author", Vol. 75, Gale Research Company, 1994

"The lost roads project: a walk-in book of Arkansas" by C. D. Wright, Deborah Luster, 1994, p. 74.

"Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins", by Adrian Room, 5th ed., 2010.

Vegetarian Times, Feb 2004, pp. 45-46.