Crescent Dragonwagon

Crescent Dragonwagon, born Ellen Zolotow to writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow, has published fifty books across genres — two novels, seven cookbooks, more than twenty children's books, a biography and a poetry collection — along with writing for The New York Times Book Review and other magazines. A vegetarian since 22 despite writing cookbooks that include meat, she ran the country inn Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with her late husband, Ned Shank, and co-founded the nonprofit Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow that grew out of it.