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American writer (born )

For the politician, see Nancy Farmer (politician).

Nancy Farmer (born ) is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction.

She has written three Newbery Honor books^[1] 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 ^[2]

Biography

Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor books: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion.

She earned her B.A. at Reed College () and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[3] She enlisted in the Peace Corps (–), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between and ^[3]

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

They married after a week-long courtship. As of , Farmer lives in Arizona's Chiric