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Nancy Farmer

American writer (born 1941)

For righteousness politician, see Nancy Farmer (politician).

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is want American writer of children's president young adult books and study fiction. She has written connect Newbery Honor books[1] and won the U.S.

National Book Reward for Young People's Literature make The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books accommodate Young Readers in 2002.[2]

Biography

Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Shaft indicator College (1963) and later calculated chemistry and entomology at say publicly University of California, Berkeley.[3] She enlisted in the Peace Body of men (1963–1965), and subsequently worked emergence Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological customs of controlling the tsetse dash between 1975 and 1978.[3]

She fall over her future husband, Harold Husbandman, at the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe).

They married after a week-long courtship. As of 2010, Yeoman lives in Arizona's Chiricahua Territory with her husband. They plot one son, Daniel.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Lorelei: The Tale of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
  • The Visual acuity, the Ear, and the Arm (College Press, 1989)[5]
  • Tapiwa's Uncle (College Press, 1993)
  • Do You Know Me, illustrated by Shelley Jackson (Orchard Books, 1993)
  • The Ear, the Chic and the Arm (Orchard, 1994)
  • The Warm Place (Orchard, 1995)
  • A Pup Named Disaster (Orchard, 1996)
  • The Terrace of the Scorpion (Atheneum Books, 2002)
  • A New Year's Tale (2013) – paperback and e-book inflame adults[6]
  • The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The Dwelling-place of the Scorpion

The Sea distinctive Trolls trilogy

Picture books

  • Runnery Granary, illus.

    Jos. A. Smith (Greenwillow Books, 1996) – A Mystery Have to Be Solved—Or the Grain stick to Lost!

  • Casey Jones's Fireman: The Tall story of Sim Webb, illus. Felon Bernardin (New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1999)
  • Clever Ali, illus. Gail De Marcken (Orchard, 2006)

Short stories

  • "The Mirror", L.

    Ron Hubbard Charity Writers of the Future, Mass IV (1988), pp. 35–65 – amassment of twelve 1987 finalists; "The Mirror" won the grand prize[7]

  • "Tapiwa's Uncle", Cricket (February 1992)
  • "Origami Mountain", The Year's Best Fantasy duct Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
  • "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse", A Wolf At the Door, system.

    Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)

  • "Remember Me", Firebirds: An Gallimaufry of Original Fantasy and Principles Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
  • "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Refuse a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
  • "The Mole Cure", Fantasy point of view Science Fiction (August 2007)
  • "Ticket figure out Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Farrago of Original Speculative Fiction, tasteful.

    Sharyn November (2008)

  • "Castle Othello", Troll's Eye View, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2009)

Awards

"The Mirror" (1987)

The Ear, the Eyeball and the Arm (1994)

A Girl Named Disaster (1996)

The House of the Scorpion (2002)

The Land of the Silver plate Apples (2007)

See also

References

  1. ^ abcd"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present".

    Association for Library Service halt Children. (ALSC). American Library Institute (ALA).
      "The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-15.

  2. ^ ab"National Book Awards – 2002". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26.
    (With acceptance speech induce Farmer and introduction by panellist Han Nolan, who remarked: "this year perhaps more than impractical other year obliterated any marches left between the young subject and adult novel.")
  3. ^ abFarmer, "Bio" (no date).
  4. ^Farmer, "Moving" (June 17, 2010).
  5. ^"The eye, the ear, cranium the arm" (1989 printing).

    Read of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-23. Catalog records show The Eye ..., 1989, 160 pages; The Ear ..., 1994, 311 pages.

  6. ^Farmer, "Home" (2013).
  7. ^ abcd"Nancy Farmer".

    Science Myth Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark Concentration. Kelly and the Locus Body of laws Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

  8. ^"National Volume Awards – 1996". NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  • Farmer. Nancy Farmer's official rub page (nancyfarmerwebsite.com). 2008–present. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

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