Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer was born in 1941 in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College in 1963. She now lives in the Chiricahua Mountain in Arizona with her husband Harold, and has one son, Daniel.
Other books by Nancy Farmer:
Novels
Awards:
"The Mirror" (1987)
Other books by Nancy Farmer:
Novels
- Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
- The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm (College Press, 1989)[6]
- 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[7]
- The Lord of Opium (2013) – sequel to The House of the Scorpion
- The Sea of Trolls (Atheneum, 2004)
- The Land of the Silver Apples (Atheneum, 2007)
- The Islands of the Blessed (Atheneum, 2009)
- Runnery Granary, illus. Jos. A. Smith (Greenwillow Books, 1996) – A Mystery Must Be Solved—Or the Grain is Lost!
- Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb, illus. James Bernardin (New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1999)
- Clever Ali, illus. Gail De Marcken (Orchard, 2006)
- "The Mirror", L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988), pp. 35–65 – collection of twelve 1987 finalists; "The Mirror" won the grand prize[8]
- "Tapiwa's Uncle", Cricket (February 1992)
- "Origami Mountain", The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
- "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse", A Wolf At the Door, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
- "Remember Me", Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2003)
- "Bella's Birthday Present", Can You Keep a Secret, ed. Lois Metzger (2007)
- "The Mole Cure", Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2007)
- "Ticket to Ride", Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction, ed. Sharyn November (2008)
- "Castle Othello", Troll's Eye View, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2009)
Awards:
"The Mirror" (1987)
- 1988, Writers of the Future Grand Prize
- 1995 Newbery Honor Book (a Newbery Medal runner-up)
- 1995, Hal Clement Award (Golden Duck Award, Young Adult)
- 1996, National Book Award (U.S.) finalist, Young People's Literature
- 1997, Newbery Honor[2]
- 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- 2003, Newbery Honor
- 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany)
- 2003, Printz Honor
- 2007, Emperor Norton Award ("extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason")