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- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Orson Scott Card was born in Richland in the state of Washington. He has also lived in California, Arizona, and Utah. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two year mission for The Church in Brazil. He received a degree from Brigham Young University in 1975 and a degree from the University of Utah in 1981.
He is the author of the novels Ender's Game and its sequels, Speaker for the Dead and Ender's Shadow, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead have been awarded both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. 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.
He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.- IMDb Mini Biography By: HatrackRiver
- SpouseKristine Allen (5 children)
- Card is the only author to receive both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in consecutive years, for "Ender's Game" and its sequel, "Speaker for the Dead," in 1986 and 1987.
- Card's children are: Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret and Erin Louisa (named after Chaucer, Bronte and Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and Alcott, respectively).
- Card's grandfather, Lester Park, produced "Corianton", the first full-length feature film based on the Book of Mormon, in the early 1930s.
- I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
- The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.
- They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
- I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
- Only a fool can't be fooled.
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