Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer (born July 1941) is an American author of children's and young-adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books 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. 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. She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975–1978. She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe). After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel. 2Bibliography 3Novels Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987) The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm (College Press, 1989) 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 adults The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The House of the Scorpion 4The Sea of Trolls trilogy The Sea of Trolls (Atheneum, 2004) The Land of the Silver Apples (Atheneum, 2007) The Islands of the Blessed (Atheneum, 2009) 3Picture books Runnery Granary, illus. Jo