Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer (born July 9, 1941), in Phoenix, Arizona, is an award-winning children's author. She received her B.S. degree from Reed College, Portland, Oregon, in 1963, then enlisted in the U.S. Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. The couple were married after a courtship lasting a week. Farmer currently lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their son, Daniel.

Published works

Novels and novelettes

• The Mirror (novelette) (1987)
• Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (1987)
• Dixie Highway (1992)
• Do You Know Me (1993)
• Tapiwa's uncle (1993)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• The Warm Place (1995)
• Runnery Granary: A Mystery Must Be Solved-Or the Grain is Lost! (1996)
• A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb by James Bernardin and Nancy Farmer (1999)
• The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• The Sea of Trolls (2004)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Nancy Farmer (2004)
• Excerpt from The House of the Scorpion - in Full-Blooded Fantasy: 8 Spellbinding Tales Where Anything Is Possible (2005)
• Clever Ali (2006)
• Land of the Silver Apples, a sequel to The Sea of Trolls is due to be published in 2007

Short stories

• "Origami Mountain" (short story) - in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
• "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" (short story) - in A Wolf At the Door (2000)
• "Remember Me" (short story) - in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003)

External links

• Nancy Farmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing
• Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards