| Rosina Lippi-Green | |
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| Born | Rosina Lippi January 14, 1956 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Pen name | Rosina Lippi-Green, Rosina Lippi, Sara Donati |
| Occupation | Novelist, linguist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1997 - present |
| Genres | Romance, historical |
| Subjects | Linguistics |
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www.rosinalippi.com |
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Rosina Lippi-Green, née Rosina Lippi (born January 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green (linguistics), Rosina Lippi (literary and contemporary fiction), and Sara Donati (historical fiction).
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Lippi-Green was born Rosina Lippi on January 14, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Her father was an Italian emigrant, and she has ancestry of different Europeans countries.
At seventeen she went to Austria on an American Field Service scholarship. Upon graduating from high school, she went to teacher's college in Vorarlberg, Austria. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Princeton University and taught linguistics for twelve years.
In her spare time, she is a fiber artist whose work has been published in Quilting Arts Magazine. An interview with Linda Richards for January Magazine was published in March 2000.[1]
Her technical works include:
In 1998, she published Homestead a novel set in an isolated Austrian village, for which she won the 1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award [4] [5] and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. [6]
The Orange Prize (Britain) 2001 shortlist: Homestead by Rosina Lippi reviewed by Dylan Evans.[7]
Several reviews for Homestead by Rosina Lippi can also be found in The New York Times Book Review, The Hemingway Review and the Washington Post.
Homestead (review) by Brigitte Frase The New York Times Book Review May 9, 1999 [8] [9]
"PEN/Hemingway Award 1999" The Hemingway Review, Vol. 19, 1999: 155
"Shaped by Time, Place and Family: Fictions About Farthest Austria" Review of Homestead by Carolyn See. The Washington Post May 29, 1998
She has also written a contemporary novel entitled Tied to the Tracks, a romantic comedy set in a southern college. In Australia, this novel is published under the name Sara Donati which is more well known in that country.
Her historical fiction, published under the name Sara Donati, begins with Hawkeye from The Last of the Mohicans and investigates the life of his immediate family and descendents in the Endless Forests of New York State from 1792. These books include:
Into the Wilderness commences in the fictional town of Paradise on the west branch of the Sacandanga River, New York State 1792. Nathaniel Bonner, son of Hawkeye meets spinster Elizabeth Middleton, an Englishwoman determined to start a school. The townsfolk consist of free African-Americans, Slaves and Kahnyenkehaka (Mowhawk) as well as white Americans. It's an adventure and a love story with many twists and turns and a surprising visit from characters from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander (or Cross Stitch in Australia) series.[3] Review can be found in the 19 July 1998 issue of Booklist.[10]
The story of the Bonners continue, this time with the family being taken by force to Scotland due to long lost family connections to the Earl of Carryck and his need for an heir to his Earldom.[4]
The story of the Bonners continue many years later in 1802, this time surrounding Nathaniel's daughter Hannah who is also half Kahnyenkehaka (Mohawk), who has been studying medicine with the local doctor Richard Todd. Dr Todd has arranged for her to study at the Kine-Pox Institute in New-York City headed by Dr Valentine Simon. Meanwhile there is an escaped slave with connections to a Paradise family that needs help and the vindictive Jemima Southern sets out to destroy Hannah Bonner.[5]
Once again the story continues after several years, commencing in 1812 at the outbreak of the War of 1812. The Bonner family is separated on either side of the American/Canadian border - both the white family and the Kahnyenkehaka (Mohawk) families. Nathaniel and Elizabeth's eldest son leaves to fight with his cousin Blue-Jay only to be injured and captured and taken to Nut Island in Canada, a fort held by the invading British. Hannah and her cousin Jennet from Scotland head to Nut Island to help their male family members, resulting in dire consequences.[6]
An immediate continuation of the story has Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke Bonner searching for Jennet who has been abducted from Nut Island. Their search is successful, but then discover that her child (and Luke's) has been taken by a ruthless man (Honore Poiterin) to New Orleans, which is soon under attack by British Forces. The family has many obstactles to overcome and then have to live through the Battle of New Orleans led by Andrew Jackson to save the city from the British. An insightful look at the battle from civilian's point of view, white, black, red and Creole.[7]
Book Six in this series is currently being written and expected to be published about 2009 continuing the story of the Bonner family.[11]