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Nancy Farmer


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Nancy grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Nancy eventually got to Africa on a legal ship. She spent more than a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds. Next she was hired to help control tsetse fly in the dense bush on the banks of the Zambezi in Zimbabwe. Harold and Nancy now live in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona on a major drug route for the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the setting for The Lord of Opium. They have a son, Daniel, who is in the U.S. navy.
Nancy's honors include the National Book Award for The House of the Scorpion and Newbery Honors for The Ear, the Eye and The Arm, A Girl Named Disaster and The House of the Scorpion. She is the author of nine novels, three picture books and a number of short stories. Her books have been translated into 26 languages.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
 
Novels
   Do You Know Me (1993)
   The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm (1993)
   The Warm Place (1995)
   A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
   A New Year's Tale (2013)
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Collections
   Full-Blooded Fantasy (2005) (with others)
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Picture Books show
 
Nancy Farmer recommends
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Blood Red Road (2011)
(Dustlands, book 1)
Moira Young
"I absolutely loved BLOOD RED ROAD. Moira Young goes over the top with a most engaging heroine."

Anthologies containing stories by Nancy Farmer
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Troll's Eye View (2009)
A Book of Villainous Tales
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
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Firebirds Soaring (2009)
An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
edited by
Sharyn November
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The Dark of the Woods (2006)
Fairy Tales for Modern Times
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

More anthologies 


Awards
Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (1995) : The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm
Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (1997) : A Girl Named Disaster
Michael L. Printz Award Best Book nominee (2003) : The House of the Scorpion
Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (2003) : The House of the Scorpion


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