Don’t run away, I’m not after your worldly goods. There are a couple MBAs and MDs, however.įor much of my life I had a lot of unruly thick curly hair down to my hips. I am the first person in the family (on both sides) to get a B.A., M.A. On my mother’s mother’s side all the ancestors were huddled on the cold shores of the North See, in East Friesland and Holland.
I am directly descended from men who fought in the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the War of 1812 and World War I. On my mother’s father’s side I can trace ancestors back to New Amsterdam in 1660, Massachusetts Bay Colony, colonial Rhode Island and Connecticut, and the the Delaware Water Gap. They were admitted through the Castle Garden on the Battery in New York city.
My father’s parents came from Italy before there was an Ellis Island or even a Statue of Liberty. I refer to him here as the Mathematician. My husband is (a) a Brit and (b) a mathematician. Other places I have lived include Boston, Princeton, Vorarlberg Austria, and Ann Arbor. I am agnostic, or you can call me an infidel if that suits you better.ĭogs are my favorite creatures I have two of them and would probably have five if circumstances permitted. Goodbar? I lived in Sandburg Village near Rush Street for much of the Mr. I grew up in Chicago on the northwest side (Irving Park Road and Lincoln Avenue, or 3500 North/4000 West, for those in the know) Sara lives with Rosina and her family, but refuses to answer the phone, do windows or make herself useful in any way at all. The majority of her book reviews can be found at Goodreads you can also find her on Facebook and Twitter She lives on Puget Sound with her husband, daughter, a Havanese pupper called Jimmy Dean, and Bella, a rambunctious cat. Under her own name Rosina writes contemporary novels (and academic work, for example here). The new series jumps ahead past the destruction of the Civil War to follow Nathaniel and Elizabeth’s granddaughters into the twentieth century. Her newest novel about the Bonner family is The Gilded Hour. Sara is the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of the Bonner family in the vast forests in upstate New York, from about 1792-1825. Since 2000 she spends her time haunting the intersection where history and storytelling meet, wallowing in 19th century newspapers, magazines, street maps, and academic historical research. Rosina Lippi is a former academic and tenured university professor. Sara Donati is the pen name of Rosina Lippi.
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