Margaret Dilloway Explained

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
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

Bibliography

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yamaguchi. Leslie. How To Be An American Housewife. Discover Nikkei. 30 January 2012.
  2. Web site: Penguin Speakers Bureau. About The Author Margaret Dilloway. Penguin Group. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120718124959/http://www.penguinspeakersbureau.com/speakers/page/margaret_dilloway. 2012-07-18.
  3. Web site: Margaret Dilloway. Huffington Post.
  4. Web site: How To Be An American Housewife. Penguin Group.
  5. Web site: How To Be An American Housewife - Paperback. Penguin Group.
  6. Web site: Green. Michelle. Picks and Pans: Books. People Magazine. 23 August 2010.
  7. Web site: The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns. Penguin Group.
  8. Web site: 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. 12 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130131134745/http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2013/01/27/rusa-genre-fiction-reading-list-2013-winners/#. 2013-01-31. dead.
  9. Web site: THE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD. Binghamton University. Binghamton Center for Writers. 12 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120413114009/http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writers/binghamton-book-awards/gardner-past-award-winners.html. 13 April 2012. dead.
  10. Web site: The August 2011 Indie Next List Preview. American Booksellers Association. 12 April 2013.

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