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 |
Website | |
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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 [1] 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. [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 (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975 and 1978. [3]
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. [4]
"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)
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 |
Website | |
www |
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 [1] 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. [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 (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975 and 1978. [3]
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. [4]
"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)