Crescent Dragonwagon’s first two books (a children’s book and a cookbook) were accepted for publication in 1969, when she was sixteen. Forty-eight books, in five genres, followed, along with a Coretta Scott King Award (Half a Moon and One Whole Star) and a James Beard Award (Passionate Vegetarian). In 2018, her first play, Until Just Moistened: a Not-Quite One-Woman Show, with Crumbs, was produced by the New Play Festival. Widowed in 2000, she moved from Eureka Springs, where she’d lived for 36 years. After fifteen years in Vermont, she returned to Arkansas. She now lives, writes, and teaches in Fayetteville.