Margaret Dilloway

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
Websitehttp://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. in under four years.[2] She proceeded to work various odd jobs, and married a former Army Ranger, with whom she had 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 .

Honors and awards
  • 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: Penguin Group. 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.

"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

  • List of Asian American writers

References

  1. Yamaguchi, Leslie. "How To Be An American Housewife". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  2. Penguin Speakers Bureau. "About The Author Margaret Dilloway". Penguin Group. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
  3. "Margaret Dilloway". Huffington Post.
  4. "How To Be An American Housewife". Penguin Group.
  5. "How To Be An American Housewife - Paperback". Penguin Group.
  6. Green, Michelle. "Picks and Pans: Books". People Magazine. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  7. "The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns". Penguin Group.
  8. "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.
  9. "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.
  10. "The August 2011 Indie Next List Preview". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
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