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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[4]
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.[5]
Bibliography
Novels
Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1987)
The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm (College Press, 1989)[6]
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)
Short stories
"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]
1 2 "National Book Awards – 2002". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26. (With acceptance speech by Farmer and introduction by panelist Han Nolan, who remarked: "this year perhaps more than any other year obliterated any boundaries left between the young adult and adult novel.")
↑ "Bio". Nancy Farmer's official home page. Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
1 2 "Bio". Nancy Farmer's official home page. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
↑ "The eye, the ear, and the arm" (1989 printing). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-23. Catalog records show The Eye..., 1989, 160 pages; The Ear..., 1994, 311 pages.
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