Donna Jo Napoli
Author of Beast
About the Author
Donna Jo Napoli was born on February 28, 1948. She received a B.A. in mathematics, an M.A. in Italian literature, and a Ph.D. in general and romance linguistics from Harvard University. She has taught on the university level since 1970, is widely published in scholarly journals, and has received show more numerous grants and fellowships in the area of linguistics. In the area of linguistics, she has authored five books, co-authored six books, edited one book, and co-edited five books. She is also a published poet and co-editor of four volumes of poetry. Her first middle grade novel, Soccer Shock, was published in 1991. Her other novels include the Zel, Beast, The Wager, Lights on the Nile, Skin, Storm, Hidden, and Dark Shimmer. She is also the author of several picture books including Flamingo Dream, The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions, Corkscrew Counts: A Story About Multiplication, The Crossing, A Single Pearl, and Hands and Hearts. She has received several awards including the New Jersey Reading Association's M. Jerry Weiss Book Award for The Prince of the Pond and the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Donna Jo Napoli
Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters (2011) 569 copies
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (2013) 351 copies
Bridges between psychology and linguistics a Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman (1991) — Editor — 3 copies
Angelwings: Little Creatures 1 copy
Angelwing 1 copy
The Bravest Thing 1 copy
Angelwings: On Her Own 1 copy
Angelwings: One Leap Forward 1 copy
Angelwings: No Fair! 1 copy
Books 1 copy
Angelwings 1 copy
Bring Wine and Crusty Bread 1 copy
Associated Works
Contemporary research in Romance linguistics papers from the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El… (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1948-02-28
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Places of residence
- Miami, Florida, USA
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA - Education
- Harvard University (A.B. ∙ Mathematics)
Harvard University (Ph.D. ∙ Romance Languages and Literatures ∙ 1973) - Occupations
- linguist
college professor
children's book author - Organizations
- Swarthmore College
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Fantasy, village 'witch' becomes possessed and is burned by Hansel and Gretel in Name that Book (October 2012)
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