Nancy Farmer - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	07-July-1941
Place of Birth	Phoenix (Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Nancy Forsythe Farmer
Profession	Author, Novelist, Writer
Nancy Farmer is an American author of children's and young-adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and she 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. Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. She enlisted in the Peace Corps, and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia, where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975â€“1978. She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the University of Rhodesia. After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel.

Awards by Nancy Farmer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nancy Farmer.

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature	The Land of the Silver Apples

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	The Sea of Trolls
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book	The Sea of Trolls

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	The House of the Scorpion 6 up

2003

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The House of the Scorpion

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Michael L. Printz Award	The House of the Scorpion Honor Book
John Newbery Medal	The House of the Scorpion
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	The House of the Scorpion
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book	The House of the Scorpion

2002

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Honored for : The House of the Scorpion

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature	The House of the Scorpion
National Book Award for Young People's Literature	The House of the Scorpion

1997

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : A Girl Named Disaster

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	A Girl Named Disaster

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature	A Girl Named Disaster

1995

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

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