Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer 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 (present-day 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.

"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)
• 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
• 1997, Newbery Honor

The House of the Scorpion (2002)

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