Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 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. Wikipedia
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Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed author of many notable novels, including THREE DAYS, ZEL, STONES IN WATER, and CRAZY JACK; the picture books ALBERT and HOW HUNGRY ARE YOU?; and the Angelwings series. www.teenreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna.asp