Name Margaret Dilloway | Role Novelist | |
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Books How to Be an American Housewife, The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns |
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Margaret Dilloway is a contemporary Japanese-American chick lit novelist, and author of How To Be An American Housewife and The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns.
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- Author in pjs margaret dilloway
- The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns author Margaret Dilloway
- Biography
- Career
- Honors and awards
- Essays
- References

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns author Margaret Dilloway
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 in Claremont, California completing her B.A. in 3.5 years and majored in Studio Art. She has worked in various odd jobs, but now she is married to a former Army Ranger and they have three children.
Career
How To Be An American Housewife was published by Putnam Books in 2010 and reprinted in paperback in 2011. It received great reviews across the board, 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 Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association 2012 award for top Women's Fiction.
Honors and awards

John Gardner Fiction Award Finalist, 2011
Indie NEXT List Pick, 2010
Essays
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-dilloway/the-japanese-untouchables_b_697585.html
http://www.blogher.com/my-mother-and-american-way-housekeeping