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Margaret Dilloway - Wikipedia

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Margaret Dilloway is a Japanese American author best known for her novels How To Be An American Housewife and The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns.

Margaret Dilloway
Margaret Dilloway
Website	http://www.margaretdilloway.com

Biography

Margaret Dilloway was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father.^[1] She grew up in San Diego and has lived in Washington, Hawaii, and San Diego, California as an adult. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, earning a Studio Art B.A.^[2] She has three children.^[3]

Career

How To Be An American Housewife was published by Putnam Books in 2010^[4] and reprinted in paperback in 2011.^[5] It received positive reviews, including four stars from People magazine.^[6]

Her second novel, The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns was published by Putnam in August 2012.^[7] The book won the American Library Association Reference and User Services Association 2012 award in Women's Fiction.^[8]

Her third book Sisters of Heart and Snow was published in 2015 by Penguin, with narratives alternating between current-day Japanese American sisters and 12th century female samurai Tomoe Gozen .

Middle grade fantasy: MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE LOST ISLAND OF MONSTERS and MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE DREAM THIEF were published by Disney-Hyperion and then bought by Balzer + Bray, and optioned by Fox Animation for a feature film.

Middle grade contemporary, published by Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins): SUMMER OF A THOUSAND PIES, FIVE THINGS ABOUT AVA ANDREWS, and WHERE THE SKY LIVES.

In 2020, Margaret was the Zion National Park Artist-in-Residence in February, living there for a month right before the quarantine hit. There she wrote WHERE THE SKY LIVES, which takes place in Zion.

Honors and awards

Christopher Award, FIVE THINGS ABOUT AVA ANDREWS, 2021
Children's Literature Council of Southern California Excellence in a Work of Juvenile Fiction, SUMMER OF A THOUSAND PIES, 2020
American Library Association Asian/Pacific American Librarians Honor Award, MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE LOST ISLAND OF MONSTERS, 2017
American Library Association Literary Tastes Award for Best Women's Fiction, THE CARE AND HANDLING OF ROSES WITH THORNS, 2013
John Gardner Fiction Award Finalist, 2011^[9]
Indie NEXT List Pick, 2010^[10]

Bibliography

Dilloway, Margaret (2010). How to Be an American Housewife. United States: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-15637-3.
Dilloway, Margaret (2012). The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns. United States: Putnam. ISBN 978-0399157752.
Walton, Todd (2013). Spark: A Creative Anthology. United States: Empire & Great Jones Little Press. ISBN 978-0988807211. Contributing author.
Dilloway, Margaret (2015). Sisters of Heart and Snow. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 9780399170805.Dilloway, Margaret (2016). Momotaro: Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters. Little, Brown Readers. ISBN 978-1484746813.Dilloway, Margaret (2016). Momotaro: Xander and the Dream Thief. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1484790076.
"The Japanese Untouchables" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-dilloway/the-japanese-untouchables_b_697585.html
"My Mother and the American Way" http://www.blogher.com/my-mother-and-american-way-housekeeping.

References

^ Yamaguchi, Leslie. "How To Be An American Housewife". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
^ Penguin Speakers Bureau. "About The Author Margaret Dilloway". Penguin Group. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
^ "Margaret Dilloway". Huffington Post.
^ "How To Be An American Housewife". Penguin Group.
^ "How To Be An American Housewife - Paperback". Penguin Group.
^ Green, Michelle. "Picks and Pans: Books". People Magazine. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
^ "The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns". Penguin Group.
^ "BREAKING NEWS: RUSA's 2013 Reading List Announced: Librarian's top picks in adrenaline, mystery, romance, sci-fi, women's fiction and other genres". American Library Association Reference and User Services Association. Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
^ "THE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD". Binghamton University. Binghamton Center for Writers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
^ "The August 2011 Indie Next List Preview". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 12 April 2013.

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