Rosina Lippi

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 descendants 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Lippi-Green was born Rosina Lippi on January 14, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Her father was an Italian emigrant, and she has ancestry of different European 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 attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.

She earned a PhD in linguistics from Princeton University in 1987, with a dissertation entitled, "Variation leading to change in rural Alemannic: the dialect of Grossdorf in Vorarlberg, Austria", and taught linguistics for twelve years, notably at the University of Michigan.

Her best known linguistic work is English with an Accent (Lippi-Green 1997, 2011), which is now in its second edition.

In her spare time, she is a fiber artist whose work has been published in Quilting Arts magazine.

In 1998, she published Homestead a novel set in an isolated Austrian village, for which she won the 1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

The Orange Prize (Britain)

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.

Review can be found in the July 19, 1998, issue of Booklist.

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.

Homestead (review) by Brigitte Frase The New York Times Book Review May 9, 1999

"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.

An interview with Linda Richards for January Magazine was published in March 2000.

2001 shortlist: Homestead by Rosina Lippi reviewed by Dylan Evans.

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.

In 2013 she took an interest in polymer clay arts and began making jewelry.

Her linguistics works include: