Occupation Writer Role Author Nationality American Spouse Harold Farmer | Children Daniel Education Reed College Name Nancy Farmer | |
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Born July 7, 1941 (age 82)
Phoenix, Arizona, US ( 1941-07-07 ) 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 Awards John Newbery Medal, National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Golden Kite Award for Fiction Nominations Michael L. Printz Award Books The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls, A Girl Named Disaster, The Ear - the Eye - and the A, The Lord of Opium | ||
Nancy farmer the long and winding road how i became a writer 2014
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.
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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.
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Awards
"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)