Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction, best known for The House of the Scorpion, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was published in 2002. That book is the first in a series, and Farmer's other work includes The Sea of Trolls, a fantasy that opens its own series, and the science fiction adventure The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. Farmer was born in 1941 and has written three Newbery Honor books.