Professional

	Crescent Dragonwagon is the author of 40 books, including cookbooks, children’s books (Half a Moon & One Whole Star, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner), and novels (The Year It Rained, a New York Times Notable). (Passionate Vegetarian, a James Beard Award-winner, has sold more than 112,000 copies) children’s books (Half a Moon & One Whole Star, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner, was a Reading Rainbow selection), and novels (The Year It Rained, a New York Times Notable, has been published in five languages.
She has also written for periodicals ranging from Cosmopolitan to Fine Cooking to Lear's, Mode, and the New York Times Book Review.
Forthcoming Works
The following culinary titles will be brought out by Workman Publishing: Ultimate Cornbread (2006); The Bean Book (2007, an updated, much-expanded version of the 1972 book) and Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time (2008, a likewise updated, much-expanded version of her 1973 book on canning and preserving).
Upcoming lecture, workshop, and teaching engagements include Unadulterated Writing for Children April 8-10, 2005; Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, Massachusetts; Books in Bloom May 1; Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Fearless Writing, drop in dates Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Cornbread for a princess and a president
	She has been a spokesperson for the California Almond Board and Le Creuset, and is one of the top ten most-requested speakers at the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN's On the Menu, and TVFN. (CD kneels in a then-new herb garden, right)
Her food --- she served brunch to a thousand at President Clinton's first Inaugural --- was proclaimed the best of Inaugural Week by the New York Times. She has the probably unique distinction of having prepared and served cornbread to both a president (Bill Clinton) and a royal (Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia).
The former inn, the present Writers' Colony
With her late husband, the writer and historic preservationist Ned Shank, she co-founded Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountains, which was acclaimed in such publications as Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Conde Nast Traveler, and was named one of America's four best country inns by USA Today. The two closed the inn in 1998 to co-found the nonprofit Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Though Crescent’s connection to the Colony is at present only historical, the institution itself continues to thrive, serving writers from around the world.
She has been a speaker at dozens of conferences for a varied range of groups, as you might expect, given her varied range of interests and achievements. She’s present before such groups as the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the Professional Association of Innkeepers International, the International Reading Association, the Summer Writer’s Conference at Indiana, the American Society of Journalists and Authors Writer’s Conference, the Southern Festival of the Book, and the American Library Association, as well as countless universities and classrooms.
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