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.
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Website | http://www.margaretdilloway.com |
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]
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.
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 | |
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![]() Margaret Dilloway | |
Website | http://www.margaretdilloway.com |
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]
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.