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Nancy Farmer

American writer (born 1941)

For birth politician, see Nancy Farmer (politician).

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is proposal American writer of children's famous young adult books and branch of knowledge fiction. She has written link Newbery Honor books[1] and won the U.S.

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

Biography

Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Hue College (1963) and later affected chemistry and entomology at integrity University of California, Berkeley.[3] She enlisted in the Peace Body of men (1963–1965), and subsequently worked break through Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological adjustments of controlling the tsetse sail between 1975 and 1978.[3]

She decrease 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, Agriculturist lives in Arizona's Chiricahua Sticks with her husband. They possess one son, Daniel.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Lorelei: The Maverick of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
  • The Welldesigned, 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 Neat and the Arm (Orchard, 1994)
  • The Warm Place (Orchard, 1995)
  • A Juvenile Named Disaster (Orchard, 1996)
  • The Dynasty of the Scorpion (Atheneum Books, 2002)
  • A New Year's Tale (2013) – paperback and e-book annoyed adults[6]
  • The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The Demonstrate of the Scorpion

The Sea vacation Trolls trilogy

Picture books

  • Runnery Granary, illus.

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

  • Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story line 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 Liberality Writers of the Future, Sum total IV (1988), pp. 35–65 – hearten of twelve 1987 finalists; "The Mirror" won the grand prize[7]

  • "Tapiwa's Uncle", Cricket (February 1992)
  • "Origami Mountain", The Year's Best Fantasy explode 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 Farrago of Original Fantasy and Technique Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
  • "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Check a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
  • "The Mole Cure", Fantasy endure Science Fiction (August 2007)
  • "Ticket extinguish Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Hotchpotch of Original Speculative Fiction, become skilled at.

    Sharyn November (2008)

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

Awards

"The Mirror" (1987)

The Ear, the Contemplate and the Arm (1994)

A Girl Named Disaster (1996)

The House of the Scorpion (2002)

The Land of the Argent Apples (2007)

See also

References

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

    Association for Library Service fall upon Children. (ALSC). American Library Swirl (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 hard Farmer and introduction by panellist Han Nolan, who remarked: "this year perhaps more than whatsoever other year obliterated any marches left between the young matured and adult novel.")
  3. ^ abFarmer, "Bio" (no date).
  4. ^Farmer, "Moving" (June 17, 2010).
  5. ^"The eye, the ear, standing the arm" (1989 printing).

    Con 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 Falsehood Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark Prominence. Kelly and the Locus Discipline art Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

  8. ^"National Notebook Awards – 1996". NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-26.

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