Donna Jo Napoli

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Donna Jo Napoli

23 books1 series

Donna Jo Napoli (born 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, wri…

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Donna Jo Napoli (born 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance.

AUTHOR CAREER

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1992–201423 cataloged publications

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THE AUTHOR’S WRITING

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Main classification

Fantasy15 (65%)
Other8 (35%)

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Genres and themes

Young Adult18 / 23 books
Fantasy15 / 23 books
Historical Fiction9 / 23 books
Childrens5 / 23 books
Mainstream1 / 23 books

THE AUTHOR’S WORLDS

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