Rosina Lippi-Green (born Jan 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names , Rosina Lippi and Sara Donati.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. She has also written a contemporary novel entitled Tied to the Tracks, a romantic comedy set in a southern college. 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 (1998) Dawn on a Distant Shore (2000) Lake in the Clouds (2002) Fire Along the Sky (2004) Less