Nancy Farmer

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.{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=https://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/bio.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221126162553/https://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/bio.html |archive-date=2022-11-26 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Nancy Farmer's official home page |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=https://nancyfarmer.weebly.com/bio.html |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Nancy Farmer's official home page |language=en}}

Farmer began writing in the 1980s, at the age of 40, while still living in Zimbabwe. She began writing stories in Africa. It was for one of those stories that she won the Writers of the Future contest, which enabled her to move back to the United States and begin writing full-time. Her experiences in Africa would go on to influence her writing.

Farmer 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.Farmer, [http://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/4/post/2010/06/moving.html "Moving"] (June 17, 2010).

• Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
• The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm (College Press, 1989)[http://lccn.loc.gov/94980934 "The eye, the ear, and the arm"] (1989 printing). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-23. Catalog records show The Eye ..., 1989, 160 pages; The Ear ..., 1994, 311 pages.
• Tapiwa's Uncle (College Press, 1993)
• Do You Know Me, illustrated by Shelley Jackson (Orchard Books, 1993)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (Orchard, 1994)
• The Warm Place (Orchard, 1995)
• A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard, 1996)
• The House of the Scorpion (Atheneum Books, 2002)
• A New Year's Tale (2013) – paperback and e-book for adultsFarmer, [http://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/ "Home"] (2013).
• The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The House of the Scorpion

• The Sea of Trolls (Atheneum, 2004)
• The Land of the Silver Apples (Atheneum, 2007)
• The Islands of the Blessed (Atheneum, 2009)

• Runnery Granary, illus. Jos. A. Smith (Greenwillow Books, 1996) – A Mystery Must Be Solved—Or the Grain is Lost!
• Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb, illus. James Bernardin (New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1999)
• Clever Ali, illus. Gail De Marcken (Orchard, 2006)

• "The Mirror", L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988), pp. 35–65 – collection of twelve 1987 finalists; "The Mirror" won the grand prize
• "Tapiwa's Uncle", Cricket (February 1992)
• "Origami Mountain", The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
• "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse", A Wolf At the Door, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
• "Remember Me", Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
• "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Keep a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
• "The Mole Cure", Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2007)
• "Ticket to Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2008)
• "Castle Othello", Troll's Eye View, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2009)

"The Mirror" (1987)

• 1988, Writers of the Future Grand Prize

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)

• 1995 Newbery Honor Book (a Newbery Medal runner-up)

[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present"]. Association for Library Service to Children. (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA).
  [http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/aboutnewbery/aboutnewbery "The John Newbery Medal"]. ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-15.

• 1995, Hal Clement Award (Golden Duck Award, Young Adult)

A Girl Named Disaster (1996)

• 1996, National Book Award (U.S.) finalist, Young People's Literature

[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1996 "National Book Awards – 1996"]. NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-26.

• 1997, Newbery Honor

The House of the Scorpion (2002)

• 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature

[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2002 "National Book Awards – 2002"]. National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With acceptance speech by Farmer and introduction by panelist Han Nolan, who remarked: "this year perhaps more than any other year obliterated any boundaries left between the young adult and adult novel.")

• 2003, Newbery Honor
• 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany)
• 2003, Printz Honor

The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)

• 2007, Emperor Norton Award ("extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason")

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[http://www.sfadb.com/Nancy_Farmer "Nancy Farmer"]. Science Fiction Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

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• Farmer. Nancy Farmer's official home page (nancyfarmerwebsite.com). 2008–present. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

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• [http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/01Farmer.html Excerpts from a Locus magazine interview with Nancy Farmer]
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