Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist.

He writes in a variety of genres, but his science fiction is his most well-known.

Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead (1986), were the only two best American science fiction awards in consecutive years, making Card the only author to win the two top American awards in science fiction literature.

In 2013, a full film version of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released.

Card is also the author of the Locus Fantasy Award-winning book The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card, a professor of English at Southern Virginia University, has written two books on creative writing, hosts writing boot camps, and seminars, and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future competition.

Brigham Young's great-grandson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

In addition to writing a large body of fiction, he has also included political, religious, and sociological commentary in his columns and elsewhere.

This essay, particularly his long-running position on gay rights, has sparked debate among the public and his colleagues, as well as a boycott of Ender's Game in 2013.

Life

Orson Scott Card was born in Richland, Washington, on August 24, 1951. He is the son of Peggy Jane (née Park) and Willard Richards Card's third child and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card. The card's family has a Mormon roots. Brigham Young, Charles Ora Card, Zina P. Young Card, Zina Young Card, Zina Young Card, Zina Young Card Brown, and Hugh B. Brown.

When Card was one month old, his family moved to San Mateo, California, so Willard Card could start a sign-painting company. The family lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, when his father finished his bachelor's degree. When Card was six, the family lived in Santa Clara, California; they remained there for seven years until his father earned his master's degree and worked as a professor at San Jose State College. Card took gifted classes in elementary school, but he was more interested in learning music: he played clarinet and French horn. He read a lot, including historical fiction, nonfiction, and literary classics. He wrote his first story, about an intelligent child who is threatened by bullies and suffers brain injury at the age of ten. In Ender's Game, Ender's Argument is based on this tale.

In 1964, Card and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona, where he participated in mock debates in junior high school. 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 classes before graduating in a year. He intended to major in Anthropology but after becoming increasingly interested in theater, he began script-writing, ten original plays, and rewriting other students' plays. The bulk of his plays were based on Mormon history and scriptures; one of them was science fiction. He could tell when an audience was involved in his scripts by watching the body language of an audience. He began writing one-act and full-length plays during his studies as a theater major, adapting fiction for the reader's theater production, and directing scripts. Mr. W. Whitman, Card's play-writing instructor, encouraged his students to write plays with LDS themes. At BYU, Card studied poetry with Clinton F. Larson. He also wrote short stories, which were later published in The Worthing Saga together.

Card served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil before graduating. Stone Tables was a play that was created during his mission. He returned from mission in 1973 and graduated from BYU in 1975, earning a bachelor's degree with distinction in theater. He founded the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which produced plays at "the Castle," a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater, after graduation. Card took up part-time work as a proofreader at BYU Press before moving to full-time as a copy editor after going into debt with the community theatre's budget. Card received his master's degree in English at the University of Utah, where he worked with François Camoin and Norman Council in 1981. He started a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame but decided against pursuing his more lucrative writing jobs.

Kristine Allen, who is the daughter of Mormon historian James B. Allen, was married in 1977. Kristine was in the chorus of a roadshow Card directed before his mission. They pleaded guilty after the Card's mission, and Card was captivated by her intellectual rigor.

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They had five children following their marriage, but Charles had cerebral palsy and died at the age of 17; their daughter Erin died the day she was born. The story about Lost Boys by Card is primarily autobiographical, but it does include the death of a fictional child. Karen Fowler, one of Card's workshop followers, said that Card had pretended to suffer the loss of a child. Card's reaction revealed that the novel implied his sadness and inability to comprehend Charles's disability. 119 Card said he rarely speaks about Charles and Erin because his sadness has not lessened over time.

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Card and his wife live in Greensboro, North Carolina; Emily, their daughter Emily, and two other writers, adapted Card's short stories Clap Hands and Sing, Lifeloop, and A Sepulchre of Songs for the stage in Posing as People. Card recovered after suffering a mild stroke on January 1, 2011.

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