Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer 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.Biography
Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. She enlisted in the Peace Corps, and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia, 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. 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.Novels
- Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat
- The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm
- Tapiwa's Uncle
- Do You Know Me, illustrated by Shelley Jackson
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
- The Warm Place
- A Girl Named Disaster
- The House of the Scorpion
- A New Year's Tale – paperback and e-book for adults
- The Lord of Opium – sequel to The House of the Scorpion
- The Sea of Trolls
- The Land of the Silver Apples
- The Islands of the Blessed
Picture books
- Runnery Granary, illus. Jos. A. Smith – A Mystery Must Be Solved—Or the Grain is Lost!
- Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb, illus. James Bernardin
- Clever Ali, illus. Gail De Marcken
Short stories
- "The Mirror", L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV, pp. 35–65 – collection of twelve 1987 finalists; "The Mirror" won the grand prize
- "Tapiwa's Uncle", Cricket
- "Origami Mountain", The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection
- "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse", A Wolf At the Door, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- "Remember Me", Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November
- "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Keep a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger
- "The Mole Cure", Fantasy and Science Fiction
- "Ticket to Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction, ed. Sharyn November
- "Castle Othello", Troll's Eye View, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Awards
"The Mirror"
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
A Girl Named Disaster
The House of the Scorpion
- 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- 2003, Newbery Honor
- 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle
- 2003, Printz Honor
The Land of the Silver Apples
