Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.For an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card.http://us.macmillan.com/author/orsons...
Cards children are: Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret and Erin Louisa (named after Chaucer, Bronte and Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and Alcott, respectively).
Cards grandfather, Lester Park, produced "Corianton", the first full-length feature film based on the Book of Mormon, in the early 1930s.
Card is the only author to receive both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in consecutive years, for "Enders Game" and its sequel, "Speaker for the Dead," in 1986 and 1987.
His longstanding condemnation of homosexuality and campaigning against same-sex marriage have drawn considerable controversy. Among fears of a boycott of the "Enders Game" film released in 2013, Summit Pictures removed Card from the "Enders Game" panel at San Diego Comic Con as they felt his presence would only generate bad publicity. Additionally, DC Comics withdrew their plans to publish a new "Superman" comic that had been penned by Card after an online petition against his hiring drew more than 17,000 signatures prompting the comics illustrator to leave the project.
