Charlotte, her husband & children

This page shows Charlotte as a young woman, along with her then-young husband, and then-young children. 

Charlotte, about age 20, sitting on a rock by a lake, above.

Maurice Zolotow, Charlotte's husband for 33 years. A writer, primarily of show business biographies, he was about 26 when this photograph was taken. The two were married on April 14, 1938, and divorced in 1969, but remained friends after the divorce, up to Maurice's death in March 14, 1991. 

Charlotte, and Maurice, young and in love, right .




Charlotte and Maurice, in their mid twenties. 

And this striking portrait of Maurice was taken later, in 1943; he was 34.

A very sassy-looking Charlotte, above,  as a young woman. 





 

Stephen, above, age 3, in a 1951 Christmas card. He was still an only child, but his sister Ellen was soon to arrive. And Steve, a little older, below, with a rather sexy-looking Charlotte, relaxing in a park. 

To left, Charlotte's father, Louis J. Shapiro, squats next to a baby carriage, while his wife, Charlotte's mother, Ella, leans over it. On the right, also squatting, is Charlotte, about age 37, and in the

Very small Ellen (in swing) with Maurice and Stephen.

Charlotte, Ellen, and Stephen: passport picture for a trip not taken, circa 1959.

Crescent, then Ellen, at about age 12, with brother Zee, then Stephen, at about age 18. This souvenir photo was taken at the Waldorf Astoria, where they, Charlotte, and Maurice were attending a performance by comedian Jack Benny, about whom Maurice was writing.

Charlotte, right, trim, dashing, elegant, intelligence gleaming from her eyes: a marvelous portrait, photographer unknown, taken around this time.  

To left: May, 1967: Charlotte, Ellen (exactly two years before she became Crescent Dragonwagon), and two of Ellen's roommates from Stockbridge School, which Ellen attended in 1967-68. The school, fictionalized, would later become pivotal in the novel she published, as Crescent Dragonwagon, The Year It Rained. The book was published in 1985, by Macmillan. 

This is CZ very much as CD recalls her during her (CD's) growing up years.