Orson Scott Card



Orson Scott Card is an American author born in 1951 in Richland, Washington. He grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah, and spent two years in Brazil, living there and working as a missionary for the Mormon Church. Card received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975), the University of Utah (1981) and spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. In 2005 he accepted the position of professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. OSC is married to Kristine Allen Card. They have had five children, two of which have unfortunately died. He and his wife currently live in Greensboro, North Carolina, with their youngest child.

Orson Scott Card is one of the most prolific authors of American science-fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction stories (e.g. biblical novels). He wrote a number of novels, short stories, poems, essays, dramas and even comic books. He gained popularity for his military science fiction novel Ender's Game (published in 1985), which in 1986 won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Apart from being a writer, Card is also a political activist, public speaker and literary critic. His works are widely read by adults and younger readers all over the world. Some of his most appreciated works include The Ender saga, The Shadow saga and the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. See also: Orson Scott Card's Bibliography.