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Orson Scott Card
The following information has been
taken from
Orson Scott Card's website.
Orson Scott Card is best known for
the Ender's series (which includes
"Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the
Dead").
Card has also written two books on
writing: Character and Viewpoint and
How to Write Science Fiction and
Fantasy, the latter of which won a Hugo
award in 1991. He has taught writing
courses at several universities,
including most recently a novel-writing
course at Pepperdine, and has also
taught at such workshops as Antioch,
Clarion, Clarion West, and the Cape Cod
Writers Workshop.
Born in Richland, Washington, Card
grew up in California, Arizona, and
Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years
as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon
Church. He received degrees from
Brigham Young University (1975) and the
University of Utah (1981). He currently
lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. He
and his wife, Kristine, are the parents
of five children: Geoffrey, Emily,
Charles, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa
(named for Chaucer, Bronte and
Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and
Alcott, respectively).
A recent interview with
Orson Scott Card is available at
SF Channel.
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