Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American author of children's and young adult books. She has written three Newbery Honor Books^[1] and she won the 2002 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books.^[2]

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.^[3] She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975–1978.^[3] 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 of Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel.^[4]

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

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)

• 1995 Newbery Honor, a runner up for the Medal^[1]

A Girl Named Disaster (1996)

• 1996 National Book Award (U.S.) finalist, for Young People's Literature^[5]
• 1997 Newbery Honor^[1]

The House of the Scorpion (2002)

• 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[2]
• 2003, Newbery Honor^[1]
• 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany)
• 2003, Printz Honor, a runner up for the Award

References

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