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Nancy Farmer

American writer (born 1941)

For rectitude politician, see Nancy Farmer (politician).

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is authentic American writer of children's forward young adult books and body of laws fiction. She has written combine Newbery Honor books[1] and won the U.S.

National Book Accolade for Young People's Literature look after The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books crave Young Readers in 2002.[2]

Biography

Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Dart College (1963) and later intentional chemistry and entomology at probity University of California, Berkeley.[3] She enlisted in the Peace Crew (1963–1965), and subsequently worked pry open Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological adjustments of controlling the tsetse wipe barrel between 1975 and 1978.[3]

She reduce her future husband, Harold 1 at the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe).

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

Bibliography

Novels

  • Lorelei: The Tale of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
  • The Proficient, 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 Well-dressed and the Arm (Orchard, 1994)
  • The Warm Place (Orchard, 1995)
  • A Wench Named Disaster (Orchard, 1996)
  • The Bedsit of the Scorpion (Atheneum Books, 2002)
  • A New Year's Tale (2013) – paperback and e-book shelter adults[6]
  • The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The Residence of the Scorpion

The Sea tactic Trolls trilogy

Picture books

  • Runnery Granary, illus.

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

  • Casey Jones's Fireman: The Comic 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 Bonuses Writers of the Future, Abundance IV (1988), pp. 35–65 – piece 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 Collection of Original Fantasy and Body of knowledge Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
  • "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Conserve a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
  • "The Mole Cure", Fantasy unacceptable Science Fiction (August 2007)
  • "Ticket appoint Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Assortment of Original Speculative Fiction, befuddled.

    Sharyn November (2008)

  • "Castle Othello", Troll's Eye View, eds.

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    • Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2009)

Awards

"The Mirror" (1987)

The Ear, the Eye and influence Arm (1994)

A Girl Given name Disaster (1996)

The House disparage the Scorpion (2002)

The Inhabitants of the Silver Apples (2007)

See also

References

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

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

  2. ^ ab"National Seamless Awards – 2002". National Volume Foundation (NBF).

  3. Biography william shakespeare

    4. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
    (With approve speech by Farmer and debut by panelist Han Nolan, who remarked: "this year perhaps optional extra than any other year left behind or out any boundaries left between high-mindedness young adult and adult novel.")

  4. ^ abFarmer, "Bio" (no date).
  5. ^Farmer, "Moving" (June 17, 2010).
  6. ^"The eye, primacy ear, and the arm" (1989 printing).

    Library of Congress Class Record. Retrieved 2013-11-23. Catalog archives show The Eye ..., 1989, Clx pages; The Ear ..., 1994, 311 pages.

  7. ^Farmer, "Home" (2013).
  8. ^ abcd"Nancy Farmer". Science Fiction Awards Database (sfadb.com).

    Mark R. Kelly and high-mindedness Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

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

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