Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Enders Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fictions top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Enders Game, which Card coproduced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in North America.

Card is the son of Peggy Jane and Willard Richards Card, the third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card. Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame.

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