Henry george farmer biography of nancy
Award-winning novelist Nancy Farmer is the author of juvenile novels and picture books that demonstrate her talent as a storyteller and her interest in African....
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) US author, initially in South Africa, but mainly Zimbabwe from 1971 to 1988, where she began to write around 1981, publishing her first work of genre interest, "The Mirror", which won the 1987 Gold Award presented by L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol 4 (anth 1989) edited by Algis Budrys.
Henry had 7 siblings: James Farmer, Nancy Ann King (born Farmer) and 5 other siblings.
This was soon followed by her first (and best-known) novel, The Eye, the Ear and the Arm (1989; much rev vt The Ear, the Eye and the Arm1994). The first version was published in Zimbabwe; the full version won several awards for Young Adult authors.
Set in Zimbabwe near the beginning of the twenty-third century, and incorporating motifs from Shona mythology dominant in the traditional culture of Zimbabwe, it complexly recounts a search by the three Mutant detectives referred to in the title for the three children of the Zimbabwean security chi