Nancy Farmer

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Nancy Farmer
Born	July 7, 1941 (1941-07-07) (age 70) Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Education	B.A., Reed College (1963)
Genres	Children's literature, young adult literature, fantasy and science fiction
Notable work(s)	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm A Girl Named Disaster The House of the Scorpion The Trolls Trilogy
Notable award(s)	Newbery Honor (x3) National Book Award Buxtehuder Bulle Michael L. Printz Award
Spouse(s)	Harold Farmer
Children	Daniel Farmer
nancyfarmerwebsite.com

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is a prominent children's book author from the United States.

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.^[1] She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Zimbabwe (where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly- 1975–1978).^[1] She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the university in Harare. After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels and novelette

• The Mirror (novella) (1987)
• Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (1987)
• Do You Know Me (1993)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• The Warm Place (1996)
• The House of the Scorpion (2002)

The Sea of Trolls Trilogy

• The Sea of Trolls (2004)
• The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)
• The Islands of the Blessed (2009)

Picture Books

• Runnery Granary: A Mystery Must Be Solved—Or the Grain is Lost!, illustrated by Jos. A. Smith (1996)
• Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb, illustrated by James Bernardin (1999)
• Clever Ali, illustrated by Gail De Marcken (2006)

Short stories

• “Tapiwa’s Uncle” - in Cricket (February 1992)
• "Origami Mountain" - in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
• "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" - in A Wolf At the Door, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
• "Remember Me" - in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
• "Bella's Birthday Present" - in Can You Keep a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
• "The Mole Cure" - in Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2007)
• "Ticket to Ride" - in Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2008)
• "Castle Othello" - in Troll's Eye View, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2009)

Awards

• 1995, Newbery Honor for The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• 1996, National Book Award (U.S.) Finalist, Young People's Literature category, for A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• 1997, Newbery Honor for A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• 2002, National Book Award (U.S.), Winner, Young People's Literature category, for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Newbery Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany) for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Printz Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Nancy Farmer (2010). "Bio". Nancy Farmer's Official Website. http://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/bio.html. Retrieved July 25, 2010. 
2. ^ Nancy Farmer (June 17, 2010). "Moving". Nancy Farmer's Official Website. http://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/4/post/2010/06/moving.html. Retrieved July 25, 2010. 

External links

• Nancy Farmer's Official Website
• Excerpts from a Locus Magazine interview with Nancy Farmer
• Nancy Farmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards
• Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing

Persondata
Name	Farmer, Nancy
Alternative names
Short description	Author
Date of birth	July 9, 1941
Place of birth	Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Date of death
Place of death