Occupation novelist, linguist Subject Linguistics Nationality American Name Rosina Lippi | Period 1997 - present Role Writer Genre Romance, historical Education Princeton University | |
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Born Rosina Lippi
January 14, 1956 (age 68)
Chicago, Illinois, United States ( 1956-01-14 ) Pen name Rosina Lippi-Green,
Rosina Lippi,
Sara Donati Awards Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Books Into the wilderness, The Gilded Hour, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Fire along the sky, Lake in the Clouds | ||
Rosina lippi green
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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Biography
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 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 attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. 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.