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.
Bibliography
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)