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Nancy Farmer
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| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Reed College (BA) |
| 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 2002 Buxtehuder Bulle 2003 Newbery Honor 1995, 1997, 2003 |
| Spouse | Harold Farmer |
| Children | 1 |
Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer 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.
Biography
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 (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975 and 1978.
She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe). They married after a week-long courtship. As of 2010, Farmer lives in Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains with her husband. They have one son, Daniel.
Awards
"The Mirror" (1987)
- 1988, Writers of the Future Grand Prize
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
- 1995 Newbery Honor Book (a Newbery Medal runner-up)
- 1995, Hal Clement Award (Golden Duck Award, Young Adult)
A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
- 1996, National Book Award (U.S.) finalist, Young People's Literature
- 1997, Newbery Honor
The House of the Scorpion (2002)
- 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- 2003, Newbery Honor
- 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany)
- 2003, Printz Honor
The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)
- 2007, Emperor Norton Award ("extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason")
See also
In Spanish: Nancy Farmer para niños
