Nancy Farmer

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Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is a prominent children's book author from the United States. Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona, took 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 Zimbabwe (where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly- 1975–1978). She met her future husband... more
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  • Jul 9, 1941 (age 68 years)

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  • Nancy Forsythe Farmer

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Year Award Nominated work Notes/Description
  • 2003
  • Honor Book
  • 2003
  • 2005
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  • 2002
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