Donna Jo Napoli

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Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance.

She has taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and is currently a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.

Born the youngest of four children in Miami, February 28, 1948, Napoli received both her B.A. (mathematics, 1970) and Ph.D. (General and Romance Linguistics, 1973) from Harvard, before a postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics at M.I.T. Napoli has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy.

Her children's books, listed below, have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Persian, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and will be in Portuguese and Thai. Many of her children's books are re-tellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Bound, and and Beast. Other children's stories are historical fiction based in Italy, including Daughter of Venice and For the Love of Venice.

Her publications in linguistics include Syntactic argumentation (with Emily Rando). (Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 1979), Syntax: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), and Linguistics: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), with dozens of articles in the scholarly journals. She is a former editor of the premiere journal Language. Napoli has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Kite Award given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (for Stones in Water) and the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award (for North).

[edit] Books by Donna Jo Napoli

The Hero of Barletta, published April 1991

Syntax Theory and Problems, published April 1993

Soccer Shock, published November 1993

The Magic Circle, published June 1995

Linguistics: An Introduction, published April 1996

The Bravest Thing, published May 1997

Sirena, published October 1998

Zel, published November 1998

On Guard, published April 1999

Stones in Water, published November 1999

For the Love of Venice, published June 2000

Changing Tunes, published June 2000

New Voices, published August 2000

Happy Holidays, published October 2000

Spinners, published February 2001

Hang in There, published April 2001

Crazy Jack, published August 2001

Beast, published June 2002

Three Days, published July 2003

Shelley Shock, published August 2003

Breath, published November 2003

Daughter of Venice, published December 2003

Song of the Magdalene, published April 2004

North, published May 2004

Bound, published November 2004

The Great God Pan, published February 2005

The King of Mulberry Street, published October 2005

Fire in the Hills, published August 2006

Hush, published October 2007

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