Nancy Farmer (author)
| Nancy Farmer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 7, 1941 Phoenix, Arizona, US |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., Reed College (1963) |
| Genre | Children's literature, young adult literature, fantasy and science fiction |
| Notable works |
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm A Girl Named Disaster The House of the Scorpion Sea of Trolls series |
| Notable awards |
National Book Award 2003 Newbery Honor 1995, 1997, 2003 |
| Spouse | Harold Farmer |
| Children | Daniel |
| Website | |
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National Book Award
2002
Nancy Farmer (born July 1941) is an American author of children's and young-adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.
Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College (1963) and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975–1978. She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe). After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel.
"The Mirror" (1987)
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
The House of the Scorpion (2002)
The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)
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