Margaret Dilloway is a
Japanese American
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...
author best known for her novels ''
How To Be An American Housewife'' and ''
The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns''.
Biography
Margaret Dilloway was born in
San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father. She grew up in San Diego and has lived in
Washington,
Hawaii, and San Diego, California as an adult. She attended
Scripps College
Scripps College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded as a member of the Claremont Colleges in 1 ...
in
Claremont, California
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, earning a Studio Art
B.A. She has three children.
Career
''
How To Be An American Housewife'' was published by Putnam Books in 2010 and reprinted in paperback in 2011. It received positive reviews, including four stars from ''
People'' magazine.
Her second novel, ''
The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns'' was published by
Putnam in August 2012. The book won the
American Library Association Reference and User Services Association 2012 award in Women's Fiction.
Her third book ''Sisters of Heart and Snow'' was published in 2015 by
Penguin
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, with narratives alternating between current-day
Japanese American
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...
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
*Indie NEXT List Pick, 2010
Bibliography
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* Contributing author.
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* "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.
See also
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List of Asian American writers
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dilloway, Margaret
American chick lit writers
Living people
American writers of Japanese descent
American women novelists
American novelists of Asian descent
Writers from San Diego
Scripps College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women writers of Asian descent