Orson scott card biography enders game movie
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Orson Scott Card
American science fiction novelist (born 1951)
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Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything in 2008 | |
| Born | (1951-08-24) August 24, 1951 (age 73) Richland, Washington, U.S. |
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| Education | Brigham Young University (BA) University of Utah (MA) |
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| Notable works | Ender's Game series, The Tales of Alvin Maker |
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| Spouse | Kristine Allen |
| Children | 5 |
| www.hatrack.com | |
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024[update], he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition
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Orson Scott Card is an American author and columnist, most widely known for being the author of the novel Ender's Game and most other Enderverse media. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Women of Genesis), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.[1]
He collaborated with Aaron Johnston on the Formic Wars: Burning Earth and Silent Strike comic books, and later on the First Formic War Trilogy. He is currently writing side-by-side with Johnston on the Second Formic War Trilogy.[2]
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 longterm position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.[1]
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret Card.[1][3]
Trivia[]
- His favorite novel in the Enderverse is Shadow
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About Orson General Card
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