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Nancy Farmer is an American writer 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.

Early life
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 and 1978. == Career ==
Career
Farmer began writing in the 1980s, at the age of 40, while still living in Zimbabwe. She began writing stories in Africa. It was for one of those stories that she won the Writers of the Future contest, which enabled her to move back to the United States and begin writing full-time. Her experiences in Africa would go on to influence her writing. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Farmer 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 2010, Farmer lives in Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains with her husband. They have one son, Daniel. ==Bibliography==
Awards
"The Mirror" (1987) • 1988, Writers of the Future Grand Prize • 1995, Hal Clement Award (Golden Duck Award, Young Adult) • 1997, Newbery Honor • 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") ==See also==
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