Orson Scott Card is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on August 24, 1951 in Richland, Washington, United States. Science fiction writer who wrote The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novels, Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. Other notable works comprise Seventh Son, Red Prophet as well as Alvin Journeyman.
The character of Ender Wiggin was played as Ender Wiggin by Asa Butterfield in the 2013 Version of Ender’s Game.
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for his science fiction works. His novel Ender’s Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) won both Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the first author to win the two top American prizes in science fiction literature in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender’s Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
In 1964, Card and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona, where he participated in mock debates in junior high school. In 1967, the family moved to Orem, Utah, where his father worked at Brigham Young University (BYU). Card attended BYU’s laboratory school, where he took both high school and early college-level classes. At first he intended to major in anthropology but after becoming increasingly more interested in theater, he began script-writing, writing ten original plays and rewriting other students’ plays. Most of his plays were based on Mormon history and scriptures; one was science fiction. Card said script-writing developed his writing skills because he could tell when an audience was interested in his scripts by their body language. During his studies as a theater major, he began doctoring scripts, adapting fiction for reader’s theater production, and writing one-act and full-length plays, several of which were produced by faculty directors at BYU. Charles W. Whitman, Card’s play-writing professor, encouraged his students to write plays with LDS themes. Card studied poetry with Clinton F. Larson at BYU. He also wrote short stories, which were later published together in The Worthing Saga.
A fervent Mormon and a Mormon, he was married to Kristine Card. All the children had names based on famous writers. Unfortunately, one child passed away in the infant stage and another suffered from cerebral palsy when he was seventeen.
