Rosina Lippi-Green, née Rosina Lippi (born January 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green (linguistics), Rosina Lippi (literary and contemporary fiction), and Sara Donati (historical fiction).

Lippi-Green was born Rosina Lippi on January 14, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Her father was an Italian emigrant, and she has ancestry of different Europeans countries.

At seventeen she went to Austria on an American Field Service scholarship. Upon graduating from high school, she went to teacher's college in Vorarlberg, Austria. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Princeton University and taught linguistics for twelve years.

In her spare time, she is a fiber artist whose work has been published in Quilting Arts Magazine. An interview with Linda Richards for January Magazine was published in March 2000.

Her technical works include:

In 1998, she published Homestead a novel set in an isolated Austrian village, for which she won the 1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award [4] [5] and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. [6]

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.