Expanded the Ender story into two novels, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead (19), both of which won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, science fiction's two highest honours-the first time an author won both in successive years.

After this, wrote many more sci-fi stories and novels, among them The Worthing Chronicle (1979) and Hart's Hope (1983), to lukewarm response, However, his extensive revision of The Worthing Chronicle in 1983 is highly regarded.

Wrote religious plays and fiction for awhile but won his first major acclaim in 1977 for a short story 'Ender's Game' which was nominated for a Hugo award.

Spent two years as a Mormon missionary in Brazil.

Born in Richland, Washington, raised in California, Arizona and Utah where he got degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.

He wrote Speaker for the Dead, one of the best science fiction novels I've read.

He has a lot of practical knowledge about writing and is willing to share it widely-for free-on the Internet.

In some ways a writer's writer, though also definitely a reader's writer-writing to communicate with a reader, not to impress or intimidate.

He's a prolific, versatile writer who has handled a wide-range of styles and topics.

His treatment of religion in his mainstream science fiction is intelligent and interesting.

He's very conservative, judging by the underlying themes in his works and by his political commentaries on the internet (right wing by non-American standards anyway-I'm not sure how he's perceived in the U.S.).

He's very religious-a devoted Mormon whose works have sometimes been based on his religious views and the history of the Church of the Latter Days Saints.

What I don't like about Orson Scott Card:

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