Nancy Farmer (author)

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Nancy Farmer (born July 9, 1941) is an acclaimed children's author from the United States.

Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1963 she received her B.A. degree from Reed College, then enlisted in the Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their son, Daniel.

Awards

• 1995, Newbery Honor for The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• 1997, Newbery Honor for A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• 2002, National Book Award (U.S.), Young People's Literature category, for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Newbery Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany) for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Printz Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)

External links

• Excerpts from a Locus Magazine interview with Nancy Farmer
• Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards
• Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing

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