Rosina Lippi

The Orange Prize (Britain) 2001 shortlist: Homestead by Rosina Lippi reviewed by Dylan Evans.[6]

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

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

In 1998, she published Homestead a novel set in an isolated Austrian village, for which she won the 1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award [3] [4] and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[5]

"Shaped by Time, Place and Family: Fictions About Farthest Austria" Review of Homestead by Carolyn See. The Washington Post May 29, 1998

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. Review can be found in the 19 July 1998 issue of Booklist.[7]

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 Europeans countries.

Descendants of the Bonners in New York City in the 1880s, including doctors Anna and Sophie Savard who are distant cousins. Issues that were prominent in this time such as the influx of orphans into the City and the effect of the Comstock Act on women's health feature prominently.

Book Six concludes the story of the Bonner family. It is set in the town of Paradise in 1824, where the reappearance of Jemima Southern is perceived as a threat to her daughter Martha Kirby and stepdaughter Callie Wilde.

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.

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.

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: